Quick to rise Luxon

Quick to rise Luxon
Can you hear me? Christopher Luxon's first live TV interview as leader. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Pattrick Smellie
This time last week, Christopher Luxon was a backbencher.This afternoon, as he whipped off his tie ahead of his first-ever remotely conducted live TV interview after his debut press conference in the Beehive banquet hall, life was already moving at the hectic pace of a politician in demand.He told whoever was in the studio that he was a “husband to Amanda, a father, a brother” and a “huge country music fan, which I know I shouldn’t tell you but I really, really am”.“Mainly, I’m just a huge extrovert,&rd...

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