{"id":52080,"date":"2023-01-23T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/new-zealands-chris-hipkins-vows-to-focus-on-inflation-pandemic-and-fairer-tax-system"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:26:52","slug":"new-zealands-chris-hipkins-vows-to-focus-on-inflation-pandemic-and-fairer-tax-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52080","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Chris Hipkins vows to focus on inflation \u2018pandemic\u2019 and \u2018fairer\u2019 tax system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming prime minister echoes Jacinda Ardern\u2019s promise to cut back Labour\u2019s agenda to focus on cost of living issues<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s next prime minister, Chris Hipkins, has promised to cut back government reforms to focus on the \u201cglobal pandemic of inflation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media on Monday morning, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/new-zealand-labour-caucus-votes-in-chris-hipkins-to-succeed-jacinda-ardern\">prime minister-to-be <\/a>promised to \u201crun the ruler\u201d over the government\u2019s work programme and cut inessential reforms to focus on the economy. In the final months of 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/jacinda-ardern-vows-to-focus-on-economy-after-months-of-poor-polling\">Jacinda Ardern made similar commitments<\/a>, in a tacit admission that the government\u2019s packed legislative agenda may have become a distraction from the rising cost of living \u2013 a core issue worrying voters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/new-zealands-chris-hipkins-vows-to-focus-on-inflation-pandemic-and-fairer-tax-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming prime minister echoes Jacinda Ardern\u2019s promise to cut back Labour\u2019s agenda to focus on cost of living issuesNew Zealand\u2019s next prime minister, Chris Hipkins, has promised to cut back government reforms to focus on the \u201cglobal pandemic of infla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,2832,1054,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-labour-party","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\/52080","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52081,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions\/52081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}