Tim Dower: Solid start for Luxon, Lord knows we need him

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 5, 2021 · 2m

I want to give Chris Luxon a solid 8 for his first week as National Party leader.

Much better than I'd expected to be honest, and to be further honest I wasn't even sure the caucus would actually pick him.

And so far, MPs are making a decent fist of showing a united front.

Maybe they've finally cottoned on to the fact that they can't afford another leadership crisis before the election.

It's all or nothing now, and Luxon's put himself forward for what's always described as the worst job in politics.

The next big job for Luxon is to announce the shadow Cabinet, and we'll get that today.

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