One Saturday New Zealand elected its 42nd Prime Minister, or did it?  Only time will tell, but quite possibly the country has, more accurately, appointed a Chief Restructuring Officer. 

Luxon’s corporate background and relative lack of political experience have been well traversed over the last year.  A popular refrain from the National Party leader whilst burnishing his turnaround experience has been that a country is not a corporate but that there are similarities. 

We call it straight

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