National Party leader Christopher Luxon is unfazed by personal comments made by his opponents towards some of his MPs in the House on Tuesday.
As October's election draws closer, things are getting personal in the debating chamber - with Associate Housing Minister Willie Jackson forced to apologise for telling National's Chris Bishop to "get it through" his "thick head".
Chris Hipkins also accused ACT Party leader David Seymour of "just plain racism" after the latter asked the former: "Is the Prime Minister aware… what New Zealanders object to deeply and strongly is the constant profiling of citizens by race by his Government?"
Finance Minister Grant Robertson, meanwhile, called National deputy leader Nicola Willis a "liar" on live radio and later refused to apologise. Robertson was responding to claims by Willis, also National's finance spokesperson, that Labour made a $250 million mistake on its GST policy.
But the comments weren't of any concern to Luxon, who told AM on Wednesday they were signs of a Government "out of ideas, out of touch and out of time".
"It's got that end-of-school-year feel to it and, frankly, I think when you watch Grant Robertson's remarks in particular - I think he just needs a holiday and we're going to give it to him on October 14," Luxon told co-host Laura Tupou.
"The bottom line is they are really desperate, things are falling apart, it's a tired Government, it's run out of ideas and it's run out of energy, frankly.
"What you're seeing there is… they get personal and there's no need for that, but things go personal when you've got no track record to run on and you've got no ideas to take the country forward with."
Robertson stood by his comments on Tuesday, while Willis rejected the accusations.
The Finance Minister was "clearly under a lot of pressure", she said.
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