Election 2026: National MPs set to decide Christopher Luxon’s leadership in caucus meeting

Many National MPs have not responded when asked whether they support Luxon.

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's Luxon calls meeting of lawmakers to address leadership speculation  Reuters

Chris Bishop, who has been named as a potential successor for the top job, says, “We’ve been down this road before.”

New Zealand’s governing National Party will hold a meeting tonight as speculation mounts that its lawmakers are trying to remove Prime Minister Christopher Luxon as leader less than three months before a general election.