Now, she finds herself about to take office as New Zealand’s third female prime minister, and its youngest leader for 150 years. “We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand,” Ardern said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Winston Peters of NZ First said he chose to back Jacinda Ardern’s Labour because ‘capitalism must regain its human face’. The week before, the then Labour leader, Andrew Little, approached his popular and dynamic deputy after repeatedly tanking in the preferred PM polls. “Do it for all of us,” the UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, recently urged her, reflecting the hopes of Labour supporters around the world.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 13:52 UTC