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Jacinda Ardern: the next New Zealand PM

Name: Jacinda Ardern: the next New Zealand PM
Uploaded: 2017-10-19T15:02:36.818Z
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Former policy adviser to Tony Blair will become one of her country’s youngest PMs

Jacinda Ardern is set to become the next prime minister of New Zealand in a meteoric rise to power just months after taking control of the opposition Labour party in the middle of an election campaign.

October 19, 2017

Produced by Filip Fortuna. Footage: Reuters/Bloomberg

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I feel extraordinarily honoured and privileged to be in the position to form a government with Labour at the lead. I want to thank all those who gave Labour support.

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That's why in the end we chose a coalition government of New Zealand first with it's own Labour party.

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