Labour and the Greens: an inevitable embrace

Labour and the Greens: an inevitable embrace
Pattrick Smellie
This week, Prime Minister-elect Jacinda Ardern has told us to expect the formation of a government.Next week, if not before, there will be a new Cabinet.By late November, Parliament will be sitting again and anything Labour wants to pass into legislation, it will be able to pass without any other party’s help – for the first time since MMP voting began in 1996.This will be as novel for ministers as anyone else in Parliament. It will take some time to unlearn the reflex that says every single legislative initiative requires the suppo...

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