Christopher Luxon: National Leader discusses charter schools, police promises, electorate races, polls on the Mike Hosking Leaders Breakfast

Christopher Luxon is brushing off latest poll results that have them behind Labour on all but one of the key issues this election.  

The Ipsos Issues monitor ranks how much voters trust political parties to deliver on issues. Inflation was the leading concern and Labour the frontrunner, with 38% to National's 24%.  

Health, petrol prices, the economy, and unemployment round out the top five, with Labour on top of all four. 

The National Leader told Mike Hosking on the Leaders Breakfast polls say all sorts of things in any given week, and people should go look at the data. 

He says the economy is better under the National-led coalition than it was under Labour – same with inflation.  

"My job is to actually get under the hood, fix the fundamentals, make sure that they're actually done right and sorted because actually, it's not sexy stuff, it's not popular stuff, it's the stuff that actually does matter to make it work for the future." 

Luxon says they've seen growth in things like tourism, exports, and construction since their government came to power.  

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