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Tess McClure in Auckland

New Zealand opposition leader caught on hot mic calling country ‘negative, wet and whiny’

National party leader Christopher Luxon and other politicans
National party leader Christopher Luxon said New Zealand has ‘got to get our mojo back’. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

New Zealand opposition leader Christopher Luxon has called New Zealand a “negative, wet and whiny” country that has “lost the plot”, as he vies for voters affections at the coming election.

The leader of the centre-right National party was speaking to farmers about agricultural emissions when he was caught by a microphone saying: “We have become a very negative, wet and whiny, inward-looking country and we have lost the plot.”

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