Sky News host Rita Panahi says New Zealand’s outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was facing “what looked like certain defeat in the polls”.
“After enjoying one of the longest political honeymoons in modern politics.
”“Soaring inflation, child poverty, crime and homelessness rates and a raft of broken and unfulfilled promises.
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