Goldsmith replaces Adams as Nat's shadow finance minister

Goldsmith replaces Adams as Nat's shadow finance minister
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie June 25 (BusinessDesk) - National Party list MP Paul Goldsmith has replaced Amy Adams as the Opposition's shadow finance minister in a swiftly executed reshuffle of portfolio responsibilities announced by party leader Simon Bridges. A former press secretary to both National and Labour party ministers, former Auckland city councillor, published biographer and historian and one-time PR man for The University of Auckland, 48 year-old Goldsmith takes the plum economic policy role some eight years after entering Parliament....

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