Chris Selley: Yes, it matters where and how the prime minister vacations

Carney hasn’t spent all that much time here lately. Maybe he should use his private-jet privileges to refamiliarize himself

He referenced the Prime Minister's controversial recent comments to Rotorua businesses.

Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Whatever happens at tomorrow morning’s urgent caucus meeting to address speculation about his leadership, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has had a very bad few days already. It began with the National Party leader apologising for chastising a business gathering about dependency on governmen

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has summoned his lawmakers to an unscheduled caucus meeting as questions over his leadership intensify less than three months before a general election.

Christopher Luxon’s role as leader of the National Party is again being questioned, following a week in which he apologised for offending small business owners and caught his MPs off-guard with a policy commitment announced on talkback radio.