カテゴリー: Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand PM apologised for comment made live on parliament television during question timeNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has become the latest leader to fall victim to a hot microphone, after her comment that the leader of a minor opposit…
Labour and Ardern were immensely popular during the pandemic but inflation and deepening social inequality has changed their fortunesSupport for New Zealand’s Labour party has dropped to its lowest level since it came into power in 2017, new polling sh…
While strict Covid-19 response was broadly considered one of the most successful in the world, PM says inquiry will help prepare for next pandemicNew Zealand will launch an official inquiry into its Covid-19 response so that future governments are bett…
Finland’s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both ‘prime ministers’ after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and genderThe prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-…
The newly empowered supreme court has blown up the long-running debate on youth voting, but parliament has shrugged off its interventionNames can be deceiving. While many Kiwis might assume that our supreme court is in fact supreme – able to strike dow…
Ahead of first meeting with China’s president in three years, New Zealand PM calls for environment where differences can be discussedJacinda Ardern has said she must be able to raise concerns with Beijing without prompting “retaliatory acts”, on the ev…
New Zealand PM tells party conference ‘we are not done yet’ as poll shows Labour’s support at 5-year low ahead of elections in 2023In the darkened amphitheatre of a south Auckland conference centre, a youth choir swayed, as crowds waited for the prime …
Michael Cruickshank argued he was so drunk he could not remember sending the threats to New Zealand’s prime minister A man sent to prison for sending death threats to New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has had his conviction overturned.Micha…
New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the rightGrant Robertson and Gordon Brown have quite a lot in common.Robertson, New Zealand’s finance minister and deputy PM, had …
Many cities chose conservative candidates but the results were less about national trends than local conditionsEvery year between 2008 and 2016, political commentators would reliably announce that former prime minister John Key’s “honeymoon” was finall…
Jacinda Ardern says it is time to ‘turn the page’ on the pandemic as she scraps all but a handful of restrictionsJacinda Ardern has declared it “time to safely turn the page” on New Zealand’s Covid-19 restrictions, scrapping all but a handful of remain…
PM remembers ‘very human’ monarch who had ‘courage, compassion and humour’, but death is likely to reignite republican debate, experts sayQueen Elizabeth dies – latest updatesJacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, has remembered Queen Elizabeth …
PM Jacinda Ardern said caucus voted to expel Sharma over ‘repeated and calculated’ breaches of its rulesJacinda Ardern and her Labour colleagues have expelled MP Gaurav Sharma from caucus, the first time in more than a decade that the party has taken s…
Touring flood-hit region of Nelson, prime minister says country must do ‘all we can’ to deal with damaging events triggered by a warming climateNew Zealand’s flood- and slip-prone regions do not have the mechanisms in place to cope with rapid environme…
The prime minister imposed peace on a party once riven by public bickering, but a rogue MP has threatened all of thatJust hours after electing Jacinda Ardern leader in 2017, an extremely bruised Labour caucus stood onstage trying to assure media the pa…