Game face
Nov 08, 2020
4 minutes
JANE CLIFTON
There’s an art to putting a Cabinet together, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s deft effort this week deserves to be immortalised as a Lego set.
Every character and portfolio has been clicked together with great colour and bravado, and even some of the recycled characters look bright and new in our Lego Diversityland.
Cynics have scorned it as identity-politics bingo, but this line-up is far shrewder than that. Renewal of talent is politics’ life blood, and seldom has a PM had so much scope to deploy fresh faces.
And in case anyone runs away with the idea that Ardern has been overdoing
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