The Whip for 22 April 2026

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Guyon Espiner, Jacqui van Der Kay and Wayne Mapp. On this week's show: Christopher Luxon survives a vote of confidence in his own caucus, but will he survive the sideline sniping from his coalition partner Winston Peters?; the politics of the India FTA and the "butter chicken tsunami"; Trump extends the Iran War indefinitely, what does that mean and back home does the government need to face reality about the fuel crisis?; and the so-called Parody Bil, a bill to protect parody and satire gets the tick from the free Speech Union.