26 Jan 2023

AK's Belmont dairy owner on recent ramraids, new PM

From First Up, 5:44 am on 26 January 2023

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will spend his first official day on the job in Auckland visiting businesses today. It comes as Mr Hipkins is under pressure amid a global inflation pandemic and the cost of living up 7.2 per cent year on year. Last July, Nimesh Patel's Auckland dairy was ramraided in the middle of night by a group if ten youths armed with tennis rackets. Mr Hipkins visited the dairy last September as police minister. Our producer Matthew Theunissen went back to Belmont to speak with Nimesh Patel about what had changed since Chris Hipkins' visit.