Nicola Willis, the deputy leader and finance spokesperson of the National Party, says she hasn’t read the Council of Trade Union’s document which attempts to calculate the cost of her party’s policies. The National Party has released a long list of policies but hasn’t yet explained how it will fund most of them. However, this is not a policy that the National Party is currently committed to. This would leave the next government with just $4.2 billion for new policies, which would be more than absorbed by National’s $7 billion to $8.5 billion tax cuts. Finance Minister Grant Robertson said this week that any tax cuts that were announced as part of the election campaign would be fully funded.
