Clark was asked on NewstalkZB whether she would consider stepping aside to give Labor “a new face” before the election if the polls don’t change.
The last four have shown National’s support at more than 50 percent, and its lead over Labor at more than 20 points.
“That’s a question I’m not even prepared to contemplate,” she said when she was asked about the leadership. “I believe that in the home straight before the election itself the polls will begin to narrow.”
Clark said voters know little about the National Party in terms of personnel and policy.
“I just say ‘have a little patience.’ As the policy is crowbarred out of the National Party we will start to see all the things that led people to vote Labor in nine years ago,” she said.
Clark said National sometimes let policies “slip out” and it seemed to happen when deputy leader Bill English was on television.
“Last year it was privatization, this year it’s the right to fire policy,” she said.
