Elections 2020: Judith Collins and her softer side: ‘I’m not one-dimensional’

National Party leader Judith Collins today defended the absence of her crushing personality, saying that it has not disappeared, it is simply not appropriate to be ironclad all the time.

Defending criticism that Crusher Collins was not in action and she had softened, the opposition leader assured Mike Hosking of Newstalk ZB that this was definitely not the case.

“She’s here, she’s definitely here,” Collins laughed.

“But when you post a dental health policy or an education policy, you will see a softer side of me. You just can’t do those things with a crushing look on your face!”

He also added that it was far from one-dimensional.

“Like everyone else, I have a harder, funnier and very serious side.”

The opposition leader this morning revealed that the party would publish its economic policy tomorrow.

“What they’re going to see of us has to do with growth. We can’t get out of this with taxes. What we have to do is boost jobs, boost businesses and keep people working,” Collins said.

“More wellness won’t.”

He said there would be “substantial points of difference” for which Labor would “shout”.

NZEIR economists calculated costs independently in policy.

In one of the strangest moments in politics this week, the opposition leader was immortalized in a tattoo depicting her as New Zealand’s Bond girl.

Te Aroha man Nik Given took political devotion to a new level by getting an image of the national leader inked on his thigh.

Collins said she was extremely flattered by the gesture and hoped it would become a trend.