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Labour Leader Chris Hipkins told Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking that polls are polls, and they need to spend the next few weeks getting their poll numbers up.\xa0

\u201cEvery day in an election campaign matters, and we intend to fight until the last day.\u201d\xa0

When questioned on why election odds for Labour, Greens, and\xa0 Te Pati Maori sit at 0.2% if the election was held today according to a Herald poll, Hipkins said National and ACT\u2019s numbers are coming down.\xa0

\u201cLuxon should have done what Key did and ruled Winston Peters out.\u201d\xa0

Hipkins said he will absolutely not work with Winston Peters.\xa0

\u201cWe worked with him in the first three years, and it was very challenging, and he is not an easy person to work with.\u201d\xa0

\u201cI don\u2019t think National, NZ First, and ACT would agree on much, and it would be bad news for a country as a whole.\u201d \xa0

\u201cI will not, as Prime Minister, have Winston Peters in any government I am part of.\u201d\xa0

When questioned on falling behind Luxon in the preferred Prime Minister numbers, Hipkins said he is who is and people will make their own judgements.\xa0

Hipkins said the party\u2019s new immigration plans for overstayers amnesty affects those still living in New Zealand from the 1960s and 70s.\xa0

\u201cTheir children who were born in New Zealand can\u2019t access things like tertiary education because their parents were never regular in the first place, and I think that needs to change.\u201d\xa0

\u201cThis would be the last of the amnesties and that\u2019s why we have set the barrier at 10 years.\u201d\xa0

When questioned why amnesty should be given to those who have deliberately overstayed, he said people fall irregular in their immigration status for multiple reasons.\xa0

\u201cPeople who are here contribute to New Zealand, their kids are here should be able to stay.\u201d\xa0

Hipkins said the \u201cMinister for Just Transitions\u201d would help New Zealanders with the problems climate change will pose.\xa0

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have a lot of jobs that will become redundant from climate change and therefore we have to transition them to new jobs, we are going to have people who will have to relocate, so we will have to help them relocate.\u201d\xa0

\u201cThe money will come from the green investment fund.\u201d\xa0

\u201cWe believe we will have the money to fund it through the fund.\u201d\xa0

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