Four-year-old Tauranga boy Alex Sanita put Prime Minister John Key on the spot when he asked him the monumental question, "How do you stop problems in New Zealand?".
The plucky youngster pitched the question during the Prime Minister's special visit to The Village Childcare centre in Bethlehem yesterday. "Vote National," Mr Key quipped.
Mr Key then told Alex that solving the country's problems required a lot of brainstorming.
"You need to try really hard to think it through and think of ways of fixing it," he said.
During the session Mr Key also shared anecdotes with the children about his upbringing as the son of state house widow and some aspects of his family life.