{"id":39722,"date":"2021-12-12T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/an-unfilled-in-vision-can-christopher-luxon-lead-new-zealands-national-party-back-to-power"},"modified":"2021-12-12T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:00:18","slug":"an-unfilled-in-vision-can-christopher-luxon-lead-new-zealands-national-party-back-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39722","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An unfilled-in vision\u2019: can Christopher Luxon lead New Zealand\u2019s National party back to power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new opposition leader has been greeted with \u2018relief\u2019 by the party faithful \u2013 but what alternative he offers is not yet clear<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Luxon\u2019s shelves are empty. The solid frames that surround him are devoid of books, the broad expanse of his desk is largely uncluttered by papers, the old oak in and outboxes not yet packed with memos. The New Zealand opposition leader\u2019s office still shouts of being recently and unceremoniously vacated, and its new occupant hasn\u2019t yet made a mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just literally moved into the office in the last three or four days,\u201d Luxon says, circling to the window for a portrait. It\u2019s been a rapid ascension for the MP, catapulted from the pokier reaches of the opposition floors \u2013 \u201cthe smallest office in the building,\u201d he says \u2013 to the polished-wood expanses of leader\u2019s office. \u201cI\u2019m going to get rid of all this horrible wooden furniture,\u201d he says, glancing around. \u201cI don\u2019t like the stuffiness of it, to be brutally honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/an-unfilled-in-vision-can-christopher-luxon-lead-new-zealands-national-party-back-to-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new opposition leader has been greeted with \u2018relief\u2019 by the party faithful \u2013 but what alternative he offers is not yet clearChristopher Luxon\u2019s shelves are empty. The solid frames that surround him are devoid of books, the broad expanse of his desk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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-39722","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\/39722","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39723,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39722\/revisions\/39723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}