Judith Collins promises that National will be less combative during this term

National leader Judith Collins promises that National will be less combative during this term in Parliament after a new poll showed her support in less than half of Labor.

He also dismisses questions about new national MP Chris Luxon who is recorded in the preferred prime minister poll.

Collins said it was “delicious”, but in the end it was pretty average.

Luxon was 2 percent in the 1News / Colmar Brunton poll; Collins was at 8 percent.

“Judith is a great leader, I love working with her and she is absolutely brilliant,” Luxon said when asked about preferred Prime Minister rankings this morning.

The party preferences poll showed one of the widest gaps between National and Labor in modern history.

Job was at 53 percent, national at 25 percent, the latter more or less unchanged from election night, but job was up 3 percentage points.

Speaking to the media ahead of National’s last caucus meeting of the year, Collins said the party must show New Zealand the “new National.”

“We have to act less like a government and more like a government on hold.”

That means raising National policies and not opposing everything the government proposes, he said.

“There are some things for which we should give unity and support to the government; there are other things, where they are absolutely against our principles, [we will] stand against. “

Luxon was singing the same tune as their leader.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us in the National Party to rebuild trust and relevance.”

When asked if Collins should be watching his back, Luxon said, “Absolutely not.”

“Judith is a great leader, I love working with her and she is absolutely brilliant.”

On his own leadership ambitions, he said: “I’m in week five and I’m just trying to dominate what I’m trying to do and that’s dominate the portfolios.”