ELECTION 2020: Muller names women to top three roles; Amy Adams returns

ELECTION 2020: Muller names women to top three roles; Amy Adams returns
Pattrick Smellie
Newly elected National Party leader Todd Muller has put three women in the top three slots in his reshuffled Cabinet, naming Amy Adams at number three and in a key economic policy-making role as she confirms her decision not to retire from politics. Serial leadership aspirant Judith Collins remains the fourth-ranked shadow Cabinet member while Muller's deputy leader, Nikki Kaye, sits at number two in a reshuffle notable for appearing to treat presumed loyalists to deposed former leader Simon Bridges even-handedly. Muller said Bridges was tak...

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