A recent RNZ-Reid Research poll shows declining public confidence in Prime Minister Luxon, with worsening net favourability, negative views on the economy, and growing disillusionment with the coalition government's leadership amid rising cost of living and foreign policy stress.
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No, he's not. And I think, you know, I won't say the media. Because it's not true. They don't set out to bring a person down. But I think if you look at prime ministers, he's had the toughest time that I can recall any new prime minister ever having had. And that's because the economy is in such a state, 60 billion bucks borrowed during the COVID problems. And really, to clean that up takes a long time and the public have an expect. expectation that look they could do it in a year well it takes longer than that and when you look at the latest opinion poll and that's the taxpayer curia poll which is the government owned pollsters the headline was national can't clear 30 percent they were on 29.8 percent So we're talking about 0.2 of a percent. There's imagine of error of 3%. So look, it's absurd some of the headlines that just obviously are aimed to make Luxon look worse.
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