New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is facing an uphill battle to woo voters less than three weeks before an election.
, the campaign stop in New Plymouth was another chance for Hipkins to woo voters. Opinion polls put his Labour Party significantly behind the more conservative National Party, led by former businessman Christopher Luxon, whose promise of tax cuts to help the nation’s “squeezed middle” seems to be resonating with voters.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Hipkins, 45, said Ardern had been an “incredible” leader but that he had a different style and different priorities. “I’ve always struggled to narrow this down to just one thing because people’s lives don’t rely on just one thing,” he said, adding he was proud of the work he’d done to provide free school lunches, promote apprenticeships and tackle“This is the preeminent challenge facing humanity across the globe right now. That and inequality,” Hipkins said. “And those two things are linked.”
“India is a big market, so therefore it should be part of our international export strategy,” Hipkins said. “But I don’t think we should rush from having one major overseas market to having two major overseas markets. We’ve got to look at market diversification.”
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