At a recent packed political meeting in New Plymouth, Christopher Luxon was told in a very Taranaki way ‘you need to grow some balls and get some mongrel in you’. This Taranaki truth-teller was merely verbalizing what most of the pool of potential National voters are already thinking: when is the man going to drop the nice guy act and go for the jugular?

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