Ardern backs Twyford as Thursday Cabinet reshuffle looms

Ardern backs Twyford as Thursday Cabinet reshuffle looms
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie June 24 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern went out of her way to defend the record of Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford while announcing her "relatively minor" Cabinet portfolio reshuffle will be unveiled on Thursday. Twyford's future in the portfolio has been in doubt because of the failure of his KiwiBuild policy, which promised to build 100,000 affordable homes in 10 years, to gain momentum in the first 18 months of the government's term. "He's done an incredible job in a very diffi...

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