Labour Leader Chris Hipkins is certain their campaign hasn't been impacted by the controversy surrounding MPs visiting gang members.
Former Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni resigned on Friday after fallout from her campaigning at a whanau event, attended by gang members.
Hipkins told Mike Hosking on the Leaders Breakfast that having family members in gangs was not the main issue, her engagement was.
He says we have to be able to say there is a pathway out from a gang upbringing, and Leoni could have been that role model.
But Hipkins thinks Kiwis can see that he acted decisively when it came to dealing with the situation, saying he was more decisive on the issue than the National Party had been on equivalent issues.
He says he sets high standards, and if people don't meet them, there are consequences.
The Labour Leader has admitted he's frustrated the party can no longer contest all seven Māori electorate seats.
Leoni is staying in the race, standing as an independent, but Hipkins says he doesn't think she'll win, even though she's still got Labour beside her on the ballot box.
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