{"id":39455,"date":"2021-12-04T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/04\/christopher-luxon-is-out-of-step-with-most-new-zealanders-can-he-really-challenge-ardern"},"modified":"2021-12-04T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:00:07","slug":"christopher-luxon-is-out-of-step-with-most-new-zealanders-can-he-really-challenge-ardern-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39455","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon is out of step with most New Zealanders \u2013 can he really challenge Ardern? | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new National leader is a millionaire, anti-abortion, ex-CEO who owns seven homes and is against increases to the minimum wage<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the party of business picked the businessman. Former National party leader Simon Bridges is out \u2013 again \u2013 and former Air New Zealand chief executive and MP for Botany, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/new-zealands-national-party-anoints-ex-airline-boss-chris-luxon-as-leader\">Christopher Luxon, is in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight it seems like it was always a done deal. Sir John Key, the former prime minister and National party leader, was a prominent supporter while outgoing leader Judith Collins was running an \u201canyone but Bridges\u201d policy, effectively handing the leadership to Luxon (and making him a hostage to her and her faction\u2019s demands in the process). Political commentators were picking Luxon as a future leader before entering parliament and, only one year later, here he is.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/04\/christopher-luxon-is-out-of-step-with-most-new-zealanders-can-he-really-challenge-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new National leader is a millionaire, anti-abortion, ex-CEO who owns seven homes and is against increases to the minimum wageIn the end, the party of business picked the businessman. Former National party leader Simon Bridges is out \u2013 again \u2013 and f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions\/39456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}