As president, Leitch changed the party structure in 1989 from nineteen regions to seven divisions with the goal of spreading resources more fairly and giving members at the electorate level a greater say in policy development.
The party would then hold seven divisional conferences a year instead of the previous three, in a bid to generate publicity for its policies.
[7] He was selected to be the Alliance candidate at the 1992 Tamaki by-election caused by the resignation of Sir Robert Muldoon.
[10][11] Soon after his Tamaki campaign he stood as a candidate at the 1992 local-body elections for the newly created Auckland Regional Services Trust on the Alliance ticket and was successful.
[17] Under Leitch's leadership the party increased activities frequently putting out press releases and occasionally full-page ads in newspapers.
[18] On 8 February 2022, Social Credit released a press statement advocating for an end to the government's vaccine mandate.
[18] Leitch later called for the government to compensate all people who lost their jobs due to vaccine mandate regulations.