{"id":39277,"date":"2021-11-27T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/27\/the-era-of-judith-crusher-collins-ends-in-a-blaze-of-fury"},"modified":"2021-11-27T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T18:00:35","slug":"the-era-of-judith-crusher-collins-ends-in-a-blaze-of-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39277","title":{"rendered":"The era of Judith \u2018Crusher\u2019 Collins ends in a blaze of fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for her political ruthlessness and a fondness for going on the offensive, Collins was unable to unite the caucus behind her<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Judith Collins\u2019s tenure at the top of the National Party ended on the same notes that have sounded throughout her political career: fighting words, a refusal to back down, and one last attempt at crushing a foe.<\/p>\n<p>The MP, nicknamed \u201cCrusher\u201d for a policy that physically crushed the cars of traffic-code-violating \u2018boy racers\u2019, was never one to walk away from a battle easily. As the dust settles from her latest, leadership-ending altercation, New Zealand\u2019s opposition will be left scrambling for leadership for the fifth time in about as many years \u2013 and commentators say the party\u2019s turmoil risks creating a vacuum at the right of the country\u2019s political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/27\/the-era-of-judith-crusher-collins-ends-in-a-blaze-of-fury\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for her political ruthlessness and a fondness for going on the offensive, Collins was unable to unite the caucus behind herIn the end, Judith Collins\u2019s tenure at the top of the National Party ended on the same notes that have sounded throughout h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,1700,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-judith-collins","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39277","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39277\/revisions\/39278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}