"Hello is that you Winston? Christopher Luxon calling." That's exactly the scenario painted by the National leader, who sent a smoke signal to voters via social media this morning. "It's crunch time" he says and if he's forced to he'll ring the NZ first leader to form a government if National and ACT dont have the votes for his prefered two party coalition post election. Recent polls have New Zealand First cracking the five per cent threshold needed to get back into parliament. To date the National leader's been coy about whether he's prepared to do a deal with Winston Peters. But now Christopher Luxon couldnt be more explicit; So what's really going on here? Former Prime Minister and National Party leader Sir John Key point blank ruled Winston Peters out as a coalition partner at two elections, Sir John speaks to Lisa Owen. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default default/index.html?videoId=6337773731112
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Instead of creating an appeal fund and one-off lotto draw, the Labour Government could tax the billions of dollars banks have made in unearned, excess profits and use the money to support people.