Tim Murphy on Luxon

Tim Murphy writes:

Luxon’s coalition is relentless about its 49 points to be actioned and verified to the public before day 100, on Friday week.

He says he receives detailed updates twice a week showing progress on all initiatives and whether they are “on-track, off-track or ahead of programme”. He meets ministers and ensures their priorities are the 100-day priorities.

Compare that to Labour that had so many promises spend years with no progress or tracking.

Luxon, however, is revealing a taste for rolling 100-day plans. The second 100 days. The third 100 days.

The committee of ministers that has overseen this first one is transforming into a Cabinet strategy committee, which he will chair, and that group will launch successive quarterly plans by which the National-led Government will hold itself, and be held, accountable.

No spending three years dithering about how to do light rail.

The Prime Minister’s also been meeting ministers alongside their portfolio chief executives, to ensure “we’re all very aligned” about their programme for the rest of this year.

Early this month Luxon convened a meeting of all public service chiefs, again to outline his thinking beyond his own executive group.

This is what you call active leadership, as opposed to not noticing Ministers were not achieving anything.