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Chris Luxon: National Leader on the economy and debt as a result of a Labour-led government

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 8:07 p.m.

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The divide between the right and left continues to grow heading into the election.\\xa0

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The latest 1 News Verian poll shows Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins are neck-and-neck in the preferred prime minister rankings: both on 23%.\\xa0

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But the right bloc is on 49%, well ahead of the left bloc on 41%.\\xa0

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Put to him that they had "less than no money" to run a country, Luxon said: "Yep. We\'re going to have a really tough and difficult country. But National governments always have to come in and clean up a mess left behind by Labour. We\'ll have to do the same, I think, here again."\\xa0

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He told Mike Hosking that the country can\\u2019t afford another term of a Labour-led government.\\xa0

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