National fought the election on the economy and the cost of living, and it fought hard. Labour had taken on too much debt! All its reckless spending was driving up prices! The interest rate hikes to correct this were sending the nation into recession! This economic vandalism was hitting hardworking Kiwi families in their back pocket! The government’s books were worse than they appeared!
Week after week, Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis alleged that Labour had cooked the numbers: infrastructure commitments weren’t properly funded; major ongoing costs like the school lunches programme had been temporarily accounted for by diverting
