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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is attributing last night\u2019s poor poll result which showed coalition parties losing support to the \u201cchallenging time\u201d Kiwis are facing.\xa0

National, Act and NZ First have collectively dropped five percentage points\xa0according to the 1News Verian poll. Based on the poll, the left bloc would be able to form a government and NZ First would be out of Parliament.\xa0

The poll had National at 36 per cent, down two points from the last poll in February. Labour jumped to 30 per cent, up two, and the Green Party also increased by two to 14 per cent. Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori was on 4 per cent, the same as the last poll.\xa0

\u201cWe\u2019ve got high inflation and high interest rates, they\u2019re sick of it,\u201d he told Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking this morning.\xa0

\u201cWe\u2019re making some pretty tough decisions and we need to do that in order to fix the mess that we\u2019ve been left.\u201d\xa0

New Zealanders would make a call in 2.5 years\u2019 time, he said.\xa0

Everyone in the coalition Government was \u201cvery very focused\u201d on fixing the \u201cmess\u201d they had inherited.\xa0

And he laughed off some reporting of the poll results, calling it \u201ca little frothy & sensationalist\u201d.\xa0

\u201cI don\u2019t spend a lot of time thinking about polls\u2026\xa0

\u201cThey can say what they want to, the bottom line is we know we\u2019re here to do a job.\u201d\xa0

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