{"id":20611,"date":"2020-07-16T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/16\/simon-bridges-todd-muller-national-party-reshuffle-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:31:01","slug":"simon-bridges-and-todd-muller-get-frontbench-roles-in-national-party-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20611","title":{"rendered":"Simon Bridges and Todd Muller get frontbench roles in National party reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader Judith Collins gives two predecessors senior roles after week of turmoil for New Zealand opposition party<\/p>\n<p>Judith Collins, the new leader of New Zealand\u2019s opposition National party, has given its two previous leaders senior roles on the frontbench as part of a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Muller, whose resignation this week took the establishment by surprise, has been given the trade portfolio, while predecessor Simon Bridges now has foreign affairs and justice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/16\/simon-bridges-todd-muller-national-party-reshuffle-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader Judith Collins gives two predecessors senior roles after week of turmoil for New Zealand opposition partyJudith Collins, the new leader of New Zealand\u2019s opposition National party, has given its two previous leaders senior roles on the frontbench&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20612,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}