Time to catch up with one of this country's more well-known politicians.

We all know the year Simon Bridges had last year; being ousted as leader as the National Party panicked over Covid polling numbers.

But now, like a couple before him, he's written a bit of a life story, but he's tried to keep politics out of it.

He's called it National Identity: Confessions of an Outsider and has gone to lengths to tell us this isn't a political memoir, the book is released tomorrow.

Simon Bridges joined Mike Hosking in studio.

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