Christopher Luxon has boarded his big blue campaign bus, yet to be officially named, as he travels east along the Bay of Plenty coast today.
The National Party leader’s bus tour to Whakatāne stopped off in Te Puke with supporters and he took an opportunity to prove he was there by holding today’s Te Puke Times paper.
The town made headlines last year when a video posted to Luxon’s Facebook page suggested he was in Te Puke when he was actually in Hawaii on holiday.
Landing in Tauranga this morning after last night’s leaders’ debate, Luxon chatted briefly with a few people in the airport and handed out tickets to media for his bus ride to Whakatāne.