This weekend on The Nation...

3News political editor Patrick Gower sits down with Finance Minister Bill English to talk about u-turns and new taxes, housing development in Auckland, and benefit increases. Is this New National or just cunning politics?

Then his Labour counterpart Grant Robertson on whether the party was blindsided by the Budget and what it would do differently.

Plus we take the post-Budget pulse of the regions in Manawatu, Christchurch and Waikato and talk to Northland doctor and 2014 New Zealander of the Year Lance O’Sullivan.

And we’ll have full analysis from our panel – Fairfax political editor Tracy Watkins, Pacific Studies associate professor Damon Salesa, and NZ Herald columnist Fran O’Sullivan.

ENDS

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