‘Big, patriotic Kiwi’: Luxon quizzed on ‘negative, wet, whiny’ comment

The Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says New Zealand needed its "mojo" back. National Party leader Christopher Luxon says New Zealand is a "country of endless potential", after being asked about his comments that New Zealand had become a "very negative, wet, whiny, inward-looking country". Luxon made the "wet" comments on Monday while he was in Helensville announcing the National Party's new agricultural emissions policy. He can be heard on a 1News video then telling farmers: "We have become a very negative, wet, whiny, inward-looking country and we have lost the plot." Asked on Tuesday if that's how he felt about New Zealand, Luxon said, "no, I think this is a country of endless potential".