{"id":110637,"date":"2025-08-31T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110637\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:33:09","slug":"christopher-luxon-says-economic-activity-is-improving-despite-poll-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110637\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon says economic activity is improving, despite poll woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: RNZ \/ Mark Papalii\n<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister insists economic activity is improving, despite a new poll showing rising concerns.<\/p>\n

National has lost ground on the economy, and voters still see Labour as most capable of handling the cost of living, according to a new poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ipsos Issues Monitor is a quarterly survey that asks New Zealanders what they consider to be the most important issues, and the political parties they believe are most capable at handling them.<\/p>\n

Its latest survey<\/a> shows the cost of living is still the number one issue concerning voters, with 60 percent of New Zealanders identifying it as a concern.<\/p>\n

In the previous survey, Labour overtook National on the cost of living, and it has now increased its lead on the issue by one point to 33 percent.<\/p>\n

National, meanwhile, has dropped five points to 26 percent.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told Morning Report, while he didn’t comment on polls, he believed the previous Labour government was the reason behind cost of living rises.<\/p>\n

“I think Labour’s approach of taxing more, borrowing more, spending more is what got us into the mess and that’s what we’re now clearing up.<\/p>\n

“The state of the economy is a worry for all New Zealanders, I think we have a good plan… but we’re also dealing with a big recession, but the recovery is actually coming.”<\/p>\n

Luxon said rural industries were “doing well”, but it was more challenging for urban environments like Auckland and Wellington.<\/p>\n

Within Auckland he felt people were feeling more positive than they were a month or so ago however.<\/p>\n

“I know it’s tough but we’re dealing with a post-Covid hangover. I appreciate it’s still difficult, but it’s coming.”<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Mark Papalii The Prime Minister insists economic activity is improving, despite a new poll showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[328,45,49,48,327,46,44,329,326,324,325],"class_list":["post-110637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-audio","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-current-affairs","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}