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Former Prime Minister Sir John Key played down the low note of National Party leader Simon Bridges as the favorite prime minister before the first National Bridges Party conference as a leader.
Key will attend the conference at SkyCity in Auckland this weekend. For the first time since he resigned as prime minister in December 2016, he said he wanted to support Bridges.
He will participate in a panel of two Johnny alongside former Australian Prime Minister John Howard tonight.
Key said he also expected to be on site tomorrow to show his support for Bridges – and also send a silent signal to supporters of the National to not panic about the Bridges polls.
The lecture is a test for Bridges to prove to all party members that he is up to par after a decade of domination dominated by Key's trio, Bill English and Steven Joyce.
This will be the first chance for members to see The New Leadership Team in action and judge if they have a chance to bring National back to the government in 2020.
Although National Party polls have held around 45 and 46 percent, Bridges polls still down as prime minister preferred, Key's ranking was relatively high since he took power in 2006 and was at a peak of about 70% in some polls when he was prime minister, but he said that it was primarily a recognition of his name.
"Of course, one will always focus on one's personal numbers, but the favorite prime minister is, in many ways, a problem of recognizing his name." I have no worries about personal numbers Simon's current, I think party numbers are in the end what really matters and other numbers naturally.
He said that Bridges was "growing up", but that it was harder to get known in a non-election context, against a new, young and popular prime minister
. [TRADUCTION] "It's very difficult to maintain these numbers and what this shows, I think the 44 p. 100 of New Zealanders have not lost an iota since the last election. Key said that the work that Bridges was waiting for to overthrow a government after a term was discouraging and that it had only happened twice in the history of New Zealand, both times in unusual circumstances. circumstances.
"I think rybody understands the enormity of the challenge, which is trying to defeat a government at a term is not easy."
Key himself knows the difficulty of beating the odds – his goal had been to get National a fourth term in government although he resigned and let the work of trying to do that to the English
He kept a discreet political profile since his resignation, but said that he was on hand to offer advice when needed and was always ready to offer his support. Key said party supporters would look for signals on policies that were consistent with what the party's base believed.
He said that these voters were fundamentally motivated by the economy, and focused on fundamental issues such as law and order. and Education
Key said that the best chance for an uprising for National was if there was a slowdown in the economy. For the moment, the fundamentals of the economy remained the same as when National was in government.
"But if you see a real deterioration of the real economy – not just business confidence, but what people feel and see – I think we could ask very serious questions about the government."
Finance spokespeople Amy Adams and Bridges will be responsible for making the most of this decision
Adams will deliver his speech today, thinking that the first Labor-New Zealand government on the economy
is expected to report changes in GDP growth and calculated that each decline in GDP growth equates to $ 800 million less per year.
Bridges will deliver a speech of Opening tomorrow and promises changes, but not too much
Bridges said it was too early to make a call on issues such as tax cuts, although National was in favor of to have more money in the ckets.
"If we have the privilege of being a government, we do not yet know what we will inherit from.
I think we are somewhat horrified at what they do, where we see that they had a lot of money and their tax on the current tax parameters is rising, but in addition to that, they decided to impose a heap of others – the most important being fuel taxes.
We want to show a little bit of contrast to that. "
Housing Minister Judith Collins will also speak out and say she is in trouble. intends to focus on reforms to the Resource Management Act to stimulate housing and urban planning. [19659002]
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