1 Aug 2017

Labour's leadership change

From Afternoons, 1:14 pm on 1 August 2017
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Photo: RNZ/Rebekah Parsons-King

Jacinda Ardern was elected unopposed this morning as Labour's new leader after Andrew Little stepped down following the party's worst poll result in two decades.

Kelvin Davis was elected as her deputy.

RNZ's political editor, Jane Patterson discusses the implications of the leadership change just 8 weeks from the election.