National leader Christopher Luxon chats with Kerre Woodham on Newstalk ZB

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Opposition leader Christopher Luxon joined Newstalk ZB morning host Kerre Woodham in the studio for an hour of talkback.

He covered topics around tax after promising National will put more in the pockets of middle-income wage earners, the reset Three Waters and the cost of living crisis.

Cam Slater: National Launches Welfare for the Middle Classes

Christopher Luxon yesterday launched a new policy that should be called “Welfare for the Middle Classes”, but is instead being sold as a means to ease the burden of the cost of living crisis.

Bryce Edwards: National’s progressive childcare-consultocracy switch

National’s pitch to voters is both progressive and shrewd. Christopher Luxon declared a war on business consultants in his state of the nation speech yesterday, promising to crack down on the public service’s $1.7bn overuse of expensive business consultants and contractors, and use the savings to fund an expensive new $249m annual subsidy for childcare costs of those in work.

Mike Hosking: National have the key to an election win

What Christopher Luxon got right in his state of the nation speech was severalfold.

You have to accept that Governments lose elections and the current Government will lose this election in October because of some of the stuff Luxon outlined yesterday.

It is hopeless at delivering stuff and the stuff it did deliver very few wanted, or even asked for.