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Opposition leader Simon Bridges responds to Budget 2020
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English - May 14, 2020 06:06 - 8 minutes - 8.02 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The 2020 Budget was turned on its head and the Covid-19 pandemic forced the Finance Minister to leave some things on the cutting room floor, among them was reducing the cost of going to the doctor and the other is tertiary fees.
Grant Robertson told Checkpoint there would be no second year of free tertiary fees.
Meanwhile the extension to the wage subsidy gets a thumbs up from the National Party leader, but Simon Bridges says if he was Finance Minister there would be more for business including a plan.
He speaks to Lisa Owen.