Simon Bridges

Opposition leader Simon Bridges says the Wellbeing Budget is 'botched'. He told Lisa Owen he would cut the flabby spending and focus on health, education and infrastructure. Video, Audio

Simon Bridges - Leader of the Opposition. Audio

Police have dropped an investigation into hacking of the Treasury website.

The Treasury admitted a weakness in its website meant people could access a limited amount of Budget information.

We cross… Audio

The New Zealand Treasury has admitted its supposedly top secret Budget website was breached by searches for particular keywords.

And it says it's been advised by the police that anyone who found… Audio

Simon Bridges says the National Party has not been involved in any computer hacking and the government is "lashing out in a witch hunt". Audio

The Treasury has called in the police to investigate what they are calling a deliberate and systematic hack of the Budget documents on its website.

The Finance Minister and the Opposition leader are… Audio

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says some of the Budget details leaked to the opposition are right, but others are wrong, and Treasury is now investigating how National got hold of the documents. Audio

National Party leader Simon Bridges says the number of serious harm cases before the courts, including rape, sexual assault, murder and manslaughter, has increased by 25 percent since the 2017… Audio

Party leaders are powerless to act on accounts of serious sexual assaults at Parliament, the details of which are being kept secret. The claims were outlined in an independent report into bullying and… Audio

Independent reviewer Debbie Francis has found a culture at Parliament that allows and 'normalises' bad behaviour and harassment and refers to a small group of MPs who are well known as serial… Video, Audio

Simon Bridges has spoken with the National list MP Alfred Ngaro about his potential plan to set up a Christian values party, but the party leader says National is not involved. The potential coalition… Video, Audio

National leader Simon Bridges says it's no surprise there's been low demand for the government's fees-free policy, because it was always set to 'fail'. He joined Checkpoint live to discuss the policy… Video, Audio

Primary and secondary teachers will walk off the job for one day on May 29 in what will be the largest ever industrial action taken by teachers, involving almost 50,000 union members. The Education… Audio

A major question mark now hangs over the government promise to build 100-thousand kiwibuild houses over the next ten years. Housing Minister Phil Twyford announced a recalibration of the policy in… Audio

A look at the Government's transformation agenda, and how that is tracking, welfare, CGT and more. Also, a leaked paper on the cannabis referendum and ongoing speculation on the security of Simon… Audio

National is accusing the government of pushing a cannabis referendum that's full of holes. A cabinet paper leaked to the party shows 4 options for a referendum but only one is binding. The Justice… Audio

National served up the ‘slushies in jail’ story to the media, who then forced it down our throats for two days - then bit the hand that spoonfed them.   

It's Guyon's last day on Morning Report. Every week we speak to to the leaders of the government and the opposition. You will know Guyon doesn't resile from interrupting politicians. Audio

After days of questions about his leadership, Simon Bridges let rip in the general debate on Wednesday, so much so that one of his opponents - Winston Peters - asked for the Speaker to give the… Video, Audio