Why voters ran out of patience with New Zealand’s progressive government
Six years after ‘Jacindamania’ swept New Zealand, its Labour government, hampered by the pandemic and natural disasters, ran out of time to deliver much of the progressive reform it promised.
The scale of the New Zealand Labour government’s election loss on Saturday was all the more remarkable when you consider just how lacklustre the ultimately victorious National Party was in the final days of the campaign.
So bored had the travelling media pack become with prime minister-elect Chris Luxon’s stock campaign line about “getting the country back on track”, that journalists started to probe him on whether he believed that dinosaurs once roamed the earth.
