Live: National Party leader Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Auckland

National Party leader Christopher Luxon is due to hold a news conference in Warkworth, Auckland. It will be livestreamed by Stuff at the top of this story.

He is expected to talk about Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ decision to rule out implementing a capital gains tax or a wealth tax after the election in October.

Luxon has called the move “politically expedient” and was an attempt to gain the votes of swing voters.

“He will say and do anything in order to get elected,” Luxon said. “I think it’s very difficult to work out what he [Hipkins] stands for.”

Luxon’s news conference follows a public meeting in Nelson, where education emerged as a key concern while some of the biggest applause came in response to a question about reversing the te reo Māori names of government departments.

A short video was posted on Twitter from that meeting, in which one audience member asks Luxon about te reo road signs, while another cuts in and says “we want some action”. Luxon described the video as out of context and a “Labour hit job”.

“They want to hit me every single week and make it personal. And that’s what happened last night and what’s happened today,” Luxon said on Wednesday. “I’d encourage you to get the full script, get the transcript and watch the full video.”

Kate Davis, the poster of the video, said she went along to the meeting as a member of the public and as a PSA union organiser.

“I went along absolutely in good faith to ask a question about pay equity,” Davis said, saying the union had been lobbying MPs across the political spectrum.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has missed his chance to have a much-anticipated meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of a Nato summit in Lithuania.

During the frantic final moments of the summit, overnight Thursday, NZ Time, Hipkins’ scheduled meeting with Zelenskyy was delayed as the Ukrainian leader’s meeting with US President Joe Biden ran over time.

Hipkins came across Zelenskyy in the corridors of the summit venue, and the pair had a brief exchange.

“We’re absolutely behind you. We see [Russia’s invasion] not just as an attack on Ukraine but an attack on an entire system of value and rules,” Hipkins told Zelensky.