Chris Hipkins sets out how he would grow the economic pie

Chris Hipkins sets out how he would grow the economic pie
Prime minister Chris Hipkins at the Bloomberg address on Wednesday. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka/BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
The business philosophies of Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins can be summarised in two quotes over just as many days.On day one, in a speech to BusinessNZ in Wellington, National party leader Christopher Luxon said too many businesses now had a “parent-to-child” relationship with the government where they spent too much time wondering what the government would do. He wanted the government to get out of the way of business and for businesspeople to just focus on growing their businesses however they thought best.The next day...

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