NZ PM ratings sky high

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's party raced ahead of rivals in the latest opinion poll, putting the charismatic 40-year-old leader on track for a comfortable victory in the upcoming elections in September.

A Newshub-Reid Research Poll released late on Sunday showed the popularity of Ardern's Labour Party rose to 60.9 percent, the highest it has been in the poll's history.

Ardern's own popularity as preferred prime minister was sky high at 62 percent, while the National Party's newly elected 61-year-old leader Judith Collins stood at just 14.6 percent.

Reuters