The Whip for 29 July 2026

Join Emile Donovan for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Guyon Espiner, Holly Bennett and Tracey Martin. They discuss the latest with rising star Opportunity, including National's supposed plan to rule out working with them. Then, the Greens came out swinging at their AGM, calling for a moratorium on new consents for AI data centres. And the story that mystified a nation: an arrest of a man in Russia, accused of spying for New Zealand.