The Trans Tasman Pol Pod Episode 45

There's reportedly been a leadership coup within National's ranks which has failed. The challenger, Chris Bishop, not able to get the numbers to roll PM Luxon - Luxon survives and National may well consider itself lucky to have escaped having a leader who may well have turned out to be less popular than Luxon. Meanwhile Labour is ending the year on a high, and in the box seat to form a Government next year. The Government's desperation to get the cost of living down has seen it targeting not greedy businesses like Fonterra or the power gentailers, but local councils. It's going  to impose a rates cap, despite clear evidence of it being a failed policy overseas. And we're joined by political columnist Janet Wilson to unpack the the extraordinary failed leadership coup attempt by Chris Bishop and look at where the other parties sit as election year looms.