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\nA poll result puts National on 28.4 percent.
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The Prime Minister has told Newstalk ZB he is ‘absolutely not’ considering standing down after a poll result putting National in the 20s<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The only thing I am considering is the future of our children and grandchildren.”<\/p>\n And said he has the skills to lead the National Party and the country.<\/p>\n His comments come after speculation about his leadership following a Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll today had National on 28.4 – down nearly 3 points from its poll last month.<\/p>\n Labour is up at 34.4, while the Greens, ACT, and Te Pati M\u0101ori are all up on 10.5, 7.5, and 3.2 respectively.<\/p>\n New Zealand First has taken a slight drop to 9.7.<\/p>\n On those results it would give the centre-Left bloc 61 seats, enough to govern, while the coalition government bloc would fall short on 59 seats.<\/p>\n Luxon said none of his Cabinet colleagues have told him to reconsider his future. He said “all of them” back him.<\/p>\n He said the only polling he takes note of is his National’s own internal polling which gets processed in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n “I would reassure you – if there was a problem, I would be doing something about it. But we are long way away from what we’ve seen published in a TPU poll today.”<\/p>\n Luxon said he has “not thought about” what polling level would be the threshold for him to step down as prime minister.<\/p>\n “I have the full support of my team and my caucus.”<\/p>\n