{"id":39522,"date":"2021-12-06T11:09:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/judith-collins-axed-from-frontbench-after-losing-national-party-leadership"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T02:09:17","slug":"judith-collins-axed-from-frontbench-after-losing-national-party-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39522","title":{"rendered":"Judith Collins axed from frontbench after losing National party leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successor Christopher Luxon said Collins had a \u2018real passion\u2019 for new portfolio of science and innovation<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s former opposition leader Judith Collins has been demoted from the National party\u2019s frontbench and tumbled 18 places in its ranks, nearly two weeks after being ousted following her attempt to crush a rival.<\/p>\n<p>New leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/who-is-new-zealands-new-opposition-leader-christopher-luxon\">Christopher Luxon<\/a> announced the party\u2019s caucus reshuffle on Monday. Collins, who copped the biggest demotion in the party, will take on a single portfolio \u2013 research, science and innovation \u2013 but will remain in the shadow cabinet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/judith-collins-axed-from-frontbench-after-losing-national-party-leadership\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successor Christopher Luxon said Collins had a \u2018real passion\u2019 for new portfolio of science and innovationNew Zealand\u2019s former opposition leader Judith Collins has been demoted from the National party\u2019s frontbench and tumbled 18 places in its ranks, nea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-39522","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\/39522","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions\/39523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}