Level2 restrictions have made this year's election campaign an anti-social nightmare for politicians

Peters delivers a speech well but that's an entirely different ball game to small talk on the street with strangers and if Dunedin on Monday was anything to go by then he'll need to learn fast.

But it's not only New Zealand First dealing with this problem.

Both Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Judith Collins have had to field questions about their own social distancing on the campaign trail, after Collins was filmed playing with a baby who started sucking her fingers, and Ardern was seen in Auckland getting a little too close with well-wishers.