Analysis: During his 12-month navel-gazing tour, Kiwis told Chris Hipkins the last Labour Government tried to do too much. Not anymore.

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins has used his state of the nation speech in Auckland today to announce a reshuffle of his caucus, which he says puts a high focus on the economy.

There's one area in particular in which the Labour Party appears totally unconvincing, because its MPs themselves are unconvinced.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is now preparing billions of pounds worth of welfare and departmental spending cuts ahead of the Spring Statement. The once-vaunted financial buffer of £10billion has evaporated, and Labour now faces the stark reality that urgent action is needed to shake-up Britain's broken welfare system. Frankly, it’s about time.

If you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote.” Those were the words of Sir Keir Starmer last May making the case for 16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in UK general elections.

MP Emma Reynolds has spoken out over cash ISAs, amid reports Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to shake up the savings account.

The Labour party is raising the cost of business engagement at its annual conference this autumn, with a 66 per cent increase in the price of a ticket for its “business leaders’ summit” package.

Labour’s Jan Tinetti has lost education and several MPs have picked up new economic portfolios in leader Chris Hipkins’ caucus reshuffle. It comes alongside Hipkins giving his State of the Nation address in Auckland today where he is promising “no more games” in pledging not to overhaul every coalition Government policy if Labour is elected to power in 2026.

A Labour councillor accused senior members of his own party of being “cynical and dishonest” as proposals to increase tax bills by a maximum 4.99% were approved.

Labour deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni is expected to lead her party’s mission to win back Auckland in one of several changes leader Chris Hipkins is making in his caucus reshuffle. Hipkins will deliver his State of the Nation address in Auckland this morning to the Auckland Business Chamber,

The formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 marked the beginning of interconnected and contested strategies — parliamentary and industrial — seeking ways to advance working-class interests,