Internal polling has Labour Party above 30 percent, Chris Hipkins says
New Zealand Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins claims internal polling shows his party above 30 percent, contradicting recent public polls that suggest lower support. Hipkins remains optimistic about the party's future despite a downward trend in public sentiment.
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Political polling is a critical indicator of electoral health and party strategy in New Zealand's parliamentary system.
Labour's internal polling has the party above 30 percent, compared to the latest Taxpayers' Union Curia poll which has the party at 25.9 percent, Chris Hipkins says.
It comes as the Labour leader hints at a climate change policy to be announced later on Tuesday.
Hipkins brushed off the latest TPU-Curia poll result released on Monday , saying the only poll that matters is the election result.
That's despite dismissing last month's result, which had slightly higher support for Labour, as "rogue".
Speaking to Morning Report on Tuesday, Hipkins said it was "the National Party's poll, and it is lower than we want to be".
He stopped short of calling the poll unreliable, saying all polls were a valid sample of the people who they poll, "but the reality is there's there's a whole variety of different poll results out there at the moment".
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