Luxon's first year as leader: Tackling Ardern and her 'career politician' colleagues

Ardern is still the most preferred Prime Minister (29.9 per cent to Luxon’s 21.5 per cent in the Newshub poll). But he resists a suggestion that he is not a match for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the House. I’m not a career politician like Robertson or Ardern, or Hipkins or Wood – insert anyone.”To be fair, this week Luxon did a little better in two ways than usual with his heavily scripted questions to the Prime Minister. On Sunday night, the Newshub-Reid Research poll suggested Luxon would comfortably become Prime Minister of a National-Act government were its results translated to an election result. Has had a lot more experience with 14 years as an MP, including five as Prime Minister.