National Party leader Christopher Luxon has toured a strawberry farm in north-west Auckland where he announced a new policy directed at people on a jobseeker benefit.

It comes after the latest political poll suggested New Zealand First could wind up back in the familiar position of deciding who forms the next government.

The Newshub Reid Research poll indicates National and ACT would have 60 seats, just short of the 61 needed to form a government and requiring the support of NZ First's Winston Peters.

Yesterday, National's leader Christopher Luxon said he could work with New Zealand First, but his first preference would be for a two-party coalition with ACT.

The poll gave Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori a combined 54 seats, leaving them well short of a majority.

The biggest shifts in the party vote were a 1.9-point lift for the Greens, and the respective 1.8 and 1.3 percentage point drops for National and ACT.

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