On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Monday, 8 September 2025, the tragic story of the missing Tom Phillips and his kids has come to a close today. The kids are with authorities, Tom Phillips is dead and a police officer critically injured.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell and former police negotiator Lance Burdett speak with Heather as the situation unfolded.

It was a terrible weekend for Labour, with an embarrassing overwhelming by-election loss and the defection of former Labour MP Stuart Nash to New Zealand First.

The Ministry of Education has doubled its pay offer to secondary school teachers, but they won't have a bar of it.

Plus, the Huddle reflects on the sad end to the Tom Phillips story and whether getting Stuart Nash on board is a coup for New Zealand First.

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