Number's up for Luxon, and Hipkins

This week, Raw Politics discusses Christopher Luxon the wannabe details man, Chris Hipkins the nowhere man and David Seymour the man with 91 highly paid new staff.

Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy first assess the Prime Minister's repeated instances of misusing, misquoting or misunderstanding numbers, facts and comparisons.

The panel then looks at the Labour Party 10 months on from its electoral hiding. The red side is being careful not to bark at every passing car, but its caution is leaving a void that a coalition that has been fast, and at times loose, is continuing to exploit.

Our reader question asks how many staff will work in David Seymour's new Ministry of Regulation. And the answer is not the 30 or so indicated by the ACT leader.

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This week's recommendations:

Laura: The piece on Christopher Luxon’s bold speech to local government from Newsroom Pro editor Jono Milne: PM goes to war on council waste – and on councils

Tim: The Australian’s daily podcast The Front for its coverage of the gobsmacking defamation case in Perth where the former defence minister is suing her former staffer Brittany Higgins, who was raped in that minister’s office.

Marc: A scoop from Stuff's Tova O'Brien on Shane Jones’ attacks on “communist judge" during a meeting with the seafood lobby over Māori rights.

Raw Politics will be available every Friday, and you can watch it on YouTube too.

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