New Cabinet: Little to health, Mahuta foreign minister, Twyford squeaks in

New Cabinet: Little to health, Mahuta foreign minister, Twyford squeaks in
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has named her new Cabinet, making Nanaia Mahuta the country’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and putting former leader Andrew Little in the crucial health portfolio.The new 26-member ministry, six of whom are ministers outside Cabinet, includes seven Māori ministers including Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, and four ministers of Pasifika descent.The Cabinet is split 15/11 between male and female ministers and Finance Minister Grant Robertson will become Deputy PM after the deputy leader of th...

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