Nicola Willis went straight after Labour and its election campaign costings over the weekend.
Analysis: Nicola Willis is in combat mode ready to fight her way back into power in November.
The Finance Minister replaced one flak jacket for another on Sunday when she marched into her caucus room as National Party finance spokesperson and went after Labour and its election campaign costings.
Willis has operated this way for much of her time in the finance hotseat, but particularly this year as she has wrestled with criticism about her small Budget offerings and relentless determination to slash and cut to get to a point where a surplus can be reached sooner.
It is a reputation of fiscal responsibility and conservatism - an intentional contrast to what she says was a tax and bazooka gun spending approach by the last administration - that she has tied herself to since her first Budget.
