Today, the last effective centre-right government of the Anglosphere has fallen.
The New Zealand National government led by Bill English has been dispatched by one man: New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters.
After almost a month, Peters announced his party would enter a coalition led by Labour leader Jacinda Ardern. Just 37 years old, having spent all her parliamentary time in opposition and therefore never having held ministerial office, Ardern suddenly and unexpectedly (she all but conceded to English on election night) finds herself Prime Minister in a minority coalition, with wily 72-year-old Peters as her nominal deputy, but really the power...
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