That's what this country needs right now - we need to make him prime minister immediately," Mr Luxon said, speaking to media after his selection. But politics is a different game; Mr Luxon spoke about learning and listening and starting from the ground up. After a firestorm of National Party drama late last year, Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross will run as an independent. Asked if he'd rule out ever running for party leadership, Mr Luxon said "you're getting way ahead of yourself". And more importantly, frankly we've got a job to do - to make Simon Bridges the Prime Minister of New Zealand," Mr Luxon said.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 04, 2019 19:30 UTC