2 Nov 2020

Greens deal done, now time to appoint Labour ministers

From Morning Report, 7:18 am on 2 November 2020

Now the Greens deal is done and dusted, the Prime Minister's next move is to appoint her new ministers.

Jacinda Ardern will announce her new Cabinet this afternoon. It'll be an executive stacked with Labour ministers - except for two - the Greens co-leaders each taking ministerial portfolios outside of Cabinet.

Ardern says she has been talking to her MPs, in some cases several times, as she puts together New Zealand's first majority government under MMP.

Here's RNZ political reporter Charlie Dreaver.