So now we have a new government. What’s next?

So now we have a new government. What’s next?
Pattrick Smellie
By the strokes of four pens this morning, we finally have a government at the end of this apparently endless year.The essence of the deal signed between the Labour majority government was summed up by Greens co-leader Marama Davidson when she said that, unlike previous MMP deals: “We agree to agree to disagree.”Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put it more bluntly.Where the Greens do disagree, the government won’t be “slowed down” in pursuing policies it has a parliamentary majority to enact anyway.Tomorrow afternoon,...

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