Gone By Lunch Time Special: Jacinda in the studio

Gone By Lunchtime

Kia ora tatou, my name is Toby Manhire and this is Gone By Lunchtime Extra, a special marking the first anniversary of that white smoke moment when Winston Peters appointed Jacinda Ardern the pope of New Zealand.

And as luck would have it our guest star on this podcast special is Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, who pope in to the Gone By Lunchtime studio on Wednesday morning.

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I started by asking the PM to cast her mind back to a year ago, the final days of coalition negotiations