Christopher Luxon is addressing media after the weekly meeting of Cabinet - a day after a new polling low for National and the Prime Minister.
In a round of morning interviews, Luxon conceded he and his party needed to do better. Last night's 1News Verian poll suggested National could drop to its worst result under his leadership and put the coalition government out of power.
The poll results gave the left bloc of Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori 66 seats compared to 58 for the right bloc of National, NZ First and ACT.
National would lose 12 seats on these numbers.
Luxon says a handful of his National MPs may be behind damaging leaks about his leadership, as he vowed he would not step down "no matter what happens" before November's election.
The National Party has fallen from 34% in February to 30% now, according to the results of the latest poll. Labour, meanwhile, sits on 37%, moving up from 32% and overtaking National for the first time in the poll since before the 2023 election.
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