Promotion or knee-capping? Bridges moves Muller from climate change to agriculture

Promotion or knee-capping? Bridges moves Muller from climate change to agriculture

Pattrick Smellie

Pattrick Smellie

Tue, 30 Jul 2019

By Pattrick Smellie July 30 (BusinessDesk) - The National Party MP most involved in negotiating with the government over climate change policy, Todd Muller, has been moved out of that portfolio and given responsibility for agriculture in a move that both Muller and his leader, Simon Bridges, insist is a promotion. Muller catapults up the ranks of the National Party caucus from a lowly 31st to rank 17th following a minor shadow Cabinet reshuffle created by Nathan Guy's decision to retire from politics at the 2020 election. Guy was the prim...

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