In his 15 years in parliament, Hipkins was never a candidate in Labour’s five leadership ballots or even mentioned as such. Now he has the top job, and a job to do.
Ask Chris Hipkins’ colleagues what they think ofLabour through-and-through. Can make and take a joke. Diligent, talented and dependable. A details man.Ask them if they thought he’d be prime minister, and the answer is also the same: never.
“I don’t believe in destiny in politics,” Hipkins said after the party coalesced around his candidacy. “I actually believe in hard work”. “Many of the kids I went to school with had parents who had worked in the public services and found themselves on the economic scrap heap,” he said in his maiden speech.
“It was one of the things that got me interested in politics on a national scale,” Hipkins told Newstalk ZB in October.After a few years working and travelling – including the Kiwi tradition of the London OE – Hipkins became a Clark government staffer. Last year, he issued a formal apology to Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis after misrepresenting her and revealing private information in a spat as she attempted to navigate
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