Jacinda Ardern

Ardern and her Labour party have suffered a slide in popularity in the polls over the past year as the “Jacindamania” that carried her to a sweeping re-election ...

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PM says she doesn't have 'enough in the tank' to stand for reelection in October.

In a message to her fiancé Clarke Gayford, she said: “Let’s finally get married.” “The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice.

Labour Party politician became world's youngest female head of government at age of 37 when she was elected prime minister in 2017.

Her daughter was born in 2018, and Ms Ardern became only the second elected head of government to give birth while in office, after Benazir Bhutto in 1990. No next steps – all I know is that whatever I do, I will try and find ways to keep working for New Zealand.” “I am leaving because with such a privileged role, comes responsibility, the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead, and also, when you are not. And to Clarke, let’s finally get married.” And so to Neve, mum is looking forward to being there when you start school this year. The pair agreed to see the funny side of it, and auctioned a signed recording of the comments for charity. She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities.” The Associated Press pointed out Ms Ardern had faced a tough election campaign this year. “I am not leaving because it was hard. “I have no plan. that you can be your own kind of leader, one who knows when it’s time to go.” New Zealand will hold a general election on 14 October.

Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand after telling a stunned party conference that she no longer has "enough in the tank" to do the ...

"She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities. And for me, it’s time," And then it’s time. A statement from the Prime Minister's office released after her speech said the "privilege" of her role included "the responsibility to know when you’re the right person to lead, and also when you’re not." [Labour](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/labour-party) party caucus on Thursday, Ms Ardern said: "I know what this job takes. It’s that simple

Labour Party politician became world's youngest female head of government at age of 37 when she was elected prime minister in 2017.

Her daughter was born in 2018, and Ms Ardern became only the second elected head of government to give birth while in office, after Benazir Bhutto in 1990. No next steps – all I know is that whatever I do, I will try and find ways to keep working for New Zealand.” “I am leaving because with such a privileged role, comes responsibility, the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead, and also, when you are not. And to Clarke, let’s finally get married.” And so to Neve, mum is looking forward to being there when you start school this year. The pair agreed to see the funny side of it, and auctioned a signed recording of the comments for charity. She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities.” The Associated Press pointed out Ms Ardern had faced a tough election campaign this year. “I am not leaving because it was hard. “I have no plan. that you can be your own kind of leader, one who knows when it’s time to go.” New Zealand will hold a general election on 14 October.

Ms Ardern on Thursday told reporters her last day would be no later than February 7. In an emotional speech at the New Zealand Labour party's annual caucus ...

And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. But that zero-tolerance strategy was abandoned once it was challenged by new variants and vaccines became available. The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not.

Ardern proved she was more than a happy face as she confronted Covid, terrorism, the climate crisis and more.

She was the most important prime minister in postwar history. And in an uncharacteristically warm, dry spring in 2020 the prime minister won an unprecedented parliamentary majority – an endorsement of her policies and leadership in the worst emergency in almost a century. But that is a policy problem for the next prime minister to confront. In this sense, then, she feels like the perpetual prime minister. In each period – both before and after that defining summer from December 2019 to February 2020 – it feels as if the constant was Ardern. [Jacinda Ardern](https://www.theguardian.com/world/jacinda-ardern), who came to office in 2017, was the perpetual prime minister.

'Politicians are human. We give all that we can, for as long as we can, and then it's time. And for me, it's time'

“I understand that she needs rest, and I wish her all the best in her life.” We give all that we can, for as long as we can, and then it’s time. Ms Ardern’s term as leader will conclude no later than February 7 and a general election will be held on October 14. And for me, it’s time.” The only interesting angle you will find is that after going on six years of some big challenges, that I am human,” she continued. I have not been able to do that,” Ms Ardern, 42, told a news conference.

I'd be doing a disservice to New Zealand if I continued,” she said.

Ardern also received praise for how she handled sexist and ageist comments and questions related to her position. The move sparked comparisons to the US, where much more frequent mass shootings over several decades have barely prompted any action from Congress on gun control. She will conclude her term no later than February 7.

Speaking to her party's annual caucus, 42-year-old Ardern said "it's time" for her to move on and that she "no longer had enough in the tank" for her ...

And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. Speaking to her party's annual caucus, 42-year-old Ardern said "it's time" for her to move on and that she "no longer had enough in the tank" for her premiership. Her last day in the office will be Feb. Ardern became the world's youngest female leader in 2017 at the age of 37. "The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. She also called on a general election on Oct.

Ardern became the world's youngest female head of government when she was elected prime minister at age 37 in 2017.

The 42-year-old won’t be seeking re-election later this year as she no longer has “enough in the tank to do it justice.” In 2018, she gave birth to a baby girl with her longtime partner, television presenter Clarke Gayford. She added that it was time to make way for someone else and step down. And to Clarke, let’s finally get married,” Ms Ardern said. [Ms Ardern](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jacinda-ardern) resigned as the prime minister of [New Zealand](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/new-zealand) in a shock announcement today. The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I chaired a number of companies, still do. The difference you have made is immeasurable. I managed that for a number of years. She’s a young person. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. [New Zealand](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/new-zealand) prime minister [Jacinda Ardern](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jacinda-ardern) announced her plans to get married to her partner Clarke Gayford as she said she is resigning from the top role in a farewell speech on Thursday.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shocked many with her announcement she will leave office next month.

I do want to say that I respect her for taking on what is a difficult and demanding job, and that she’s obviously given her all. — “I just did want to acknowledge and to thank the prime minister for her service to our country. There’s a greater weight of responsibility, a greater vulnerability amongst the people, and so in many ways, I think that will be what sticks with me. I think we’ll call it a day.” — Ardern, concluding her remarks Thursday. [New Zealand](/topic/new-zealand) Prime Minister [Jacinda Ardern](/topic/jacinda-ardern) shocked many with her announcement Thursday that she will leave office next month. I had the privilege of being alongside New Zealand during crisis, and they placed their faith in me."

Jacinda Ardern came to the prime ministership of New Zealand by what amounted to an accident and had her five-year term defined by a series of crises. Her management of those crises, particularly the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre of 51 Muslims by a ...

Mr Peters tried to subtly swing New Zealand's foreign policy emphasis back to its traditional partners: the UK, the US and Australia. During the election campaign, she was dismissed by her critics as offering little more than stardust. At home, Covid defined her prime ministership. Mr Little resigned eight weeks before the election, and Ms Ardern took over. Jacinda Ardern came to the prime ministership of New Zealand by what amounted to an accident and had her five-year term defined by a series of crises. And initially, her management of Covid-19 saw her lead her Labour Party to a landslide victory in 2020, but as draconian lockdowns kept New Zealanders at home and its borders closed, her popularity began to wane.

Jacinda Ardern ended up more popular abroad than at home and leaves a largely unfinished reform agenda.

Mr Peters tried to subtly swing New Zealand's foreign policy emphasis back to its traditional partners: the UK, the US and Australia. During the election campaign, she was dismissed by her critics as offering little more than stardust. At home, Covid defined her prime ministership. Mr Little resigned eight weeks before the election, and Ms Ardern took over. Jacinda Ardern came to the prime ministership of New Zealand by what amounted to an accident and had her five-year term defined by a series of crises. And initially, her management of Covid-19 saw her lead her Labour Party to a landslide victory in 2020, but as draconian lockdowns kept New Zealanders at home and its borders closed, her popularity began to wane.

The New Zealand prime minister showed us a different way to lead, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff.

She wanted to show that there was a different way to lead, and she did so; at the height of her powers she made the world sit up and watch. To everything there is a season, and Ardern is saying that hers is passing. Her resignation speech sounded more like a recognition that leadership is by definition a finite process; that power is a series of impossibly tough choices, each of which inevitably involves burning some capital, until eventually there’s simply no more match to burn. Think of Donald Trump and his towering ego, so incapable of accepting the democratic verdict of the people that he [whipped up a mob](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/23/jan-6-panel-final-report-trump-capitol-attack) to storm the Capitol. By bowing out now, she is perhaps recognising not only that she has exhausted her own reserves but that her party’s best chance of retaining power this autumn may be under a leader free from the painful baggage she had accumulated over the last few years. If Ardern has felt painfully torn at times – and it’s a rare mother in a demanding job who doesn’t – then she didn’t spell that out in her leaving speech. And so Ardern becomes that rarest of unicorns, a politician with the emotional intelligence to jump instead of waiting to be pushed. She caught the millennial mood with her unifying response to a [terror attack in Christchurch](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/the-key-moments-of-jacinda-ardern-time-as-prime-minister-of-nz-new-zealand) and, with her appeal to New Zealanders to “ [be strong, and be kind](https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/03/17/be-strong-be-kind-we-will-be-ok-pms-message-in-face-of-coronavirus-impact/)” as they faced the Covid storm, she became the standard bearer for a gentler, more empathic model of leadership. [Boris Johnson scrabbling around](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/25/boris-johnson-tells-friend-dont-want-resign-will-stay-tory-members/) in the dirt last summer, clinging so stubbornly to his irrevocably stained premiership that even when he finally and grudgingly resigned, some wondered aloud if he really meant it. Like everyone else, New Zealanders are feeling the inflationary pinch, and polls suggest that her party will struggle in this year’s general election. So it is testament to Jacinda Ardern’s enduring skills that she has made it look almost easy. One of the hardest things in life is knowing when to stop.

Anyone with serious knowledge of Kiwi politics knows the sight of a prime minister getting out before an election they feel they can't win.

There is likely a lot of truth in the fact she says that she wants to step away to regain a family life. The government response to high housing prices was Kiwibuild, a (planned) massive new house building project that would build 100,000 homes over ten years. When Ardern was elected in 2017, she not only took on the role of prime minister, but also minister for vulnerable children. The assumption by many outside New Zealand is that this reflects growing opposition to the government’s Covid policy. Even her own personal brand has taken a major knock, with her personal popularity slipping from 46 per cent at the last general election into negative territory for the first time this month. Kiwi political leaders (as with our cousins in Australia) have a proud tradition of leaving office (either voluntarily or not) if defeat appears to be on the horizon.

'The difference you have made is immeasurable,' says Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

“I understand that she needs rest, and I wish her all the best in her life.” I’d be doing a disservice to New Zealand if I continued,” she told her party’s annual caucus meeting. “Her treatment, the pile-on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing. Ardern became the world’s youngest female head of government when she was elected prime minister in 2017 at 37. On Thursday, Clark said she was deeply saddened by the news of her resignation. She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities.”

Ardern says she slept soundly 'for the first time in a long time,' as colleagues in New Zealand deplore her treatment as prime minister.

Their caucus will meet on Sunday to vote on candidates for a new leader. And for me, it’s time,” she said. In her resignation announcement on Thursday, Ardern was asked how threats to her safety had played into her decision. The protests, coupled with increased threats and abuse against the prime minister and other MPs, prompted New Zealand’s typically open and accessible parliament to up security measures. While police could not determine motives for every individual threat, documents they released showed anti-vaccination sentiment was a driving force of a number of threats, and opposition to legislation to regulate firearms after the 15 March mass shooting in Christchurch was another factor. “Our society could now usefully reflect on whether it wants to continue to tolerate the excessive polarisation which is making politics an increasingly unattractive calling.”

The New Zealand PM has been a star from the moment she emerged in 2017, aged just 37, as prime minister of a coalition government with many people beyond ...

Ms Ardern will be missed by the Council of World Women Leaders since she was its most prominent member following the retirement of Angela Merkel. Yet Ms Ardern has been a star from the moment she emerged in 2017, aged just 37, as prime minister of a coalition government. She may well have written her own epitaph already: "Someone who always tried to be kind". Ms Ardern was only the second female head of government, after the late Benazir Bhutto, to give birth while in office. Either way, she's sure of a lasting place as a star in the political firmament. In December of that year, she had an equally strong and inclusive message when 21 people, many foreign tourists, were killed when the Whakaari volcano erupted on White Island. In the 2020 election, her popularity converted her coalition with other parties into an unprecedented overall majority for Labour in New Zealand's proportional representation system. Ms Ardern's two terms in power have been action-packed, as she noted: "We encountered a... In the meantime, the New Zealand Labour Party will choose a new leader. She is New Zealand's third woman prime minister, following Jenny Shipley and the long-serving Helen Clark, who Ms Ardern worked for. She slapped down reporters who suggested she was holding the first ever New Zealand bilateral with the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin because they were both young women. Ms Ardern also announced that she was calling a general election for 14 October this year.

As New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation, Tatler reminisces on her longstanding friendship with the British Royal Family.

Later, at the formal memorial in New Zealand, she said that she expected ties between with the monarchy to ‘deepen’ under King Charles III. ‘The legacy that New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is building stems from a belief in never losing her capacity for empathy,’ Meghan says in a trailer for the series. She wants to be remembered, she continued, as someone ‘who always tried to be kind’.

New Zealand's leader says she has a "sense of relief" as her party prepares to anoint a successor.

Mr Hipkins, 44, led the government's response to the pandemic after being appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020. Other potential candidates include Minister of Justice Kiri Allan, 39. She will step down by 7 February and Labour Party MPs will hold a leadership vote on Sunday.

The Today Show host asked former deputy prime minister of New Zealand Winston Peters whether Jacinda Ardern had decided to cut her losses when she announced ...

As to my time in the job, I hope I leave New Zealanders with a belief that you can be kind, but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused. 'I have given my absolute all to being prime minister but it has also taken a lot out of me. It's that simple.' 'It was very predictable. In an emotional press conference on Thursday, the outgoing prime minister acknowledged she may not be the right person to lead the Labour party - but said she was not resigning in fear of losing the election. In an emotional press conference on Thursday, Ms Ardern acknowledged she may not be the right person to lead the Labour party

In today's newsletter: After two terms, the Labour prime minister said she didn't have 'enough in the tank' for three more years.

[Both agreed](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/19/dining-across-the-divide-david-maple)Labour will win the next election, so that’s something. The study found a reduction in motor traffic within the zones – which use bollards, planters or traffic cameras to keep motor vehicles out – of 32.7% (median) and 46.9% (mean). Toby Moses, head of newsletters [Libby Brooks’ piece](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/19/a-contentious-place-the-inside-story-of-tavistocks-nhs-gender-identity-clinic)into the Tavistock’s NHS gender identity clinic is sensitively handled and exhaustive, telling the 33-year story of this pioneering and contentious facility that now faces closure. Yet it’s always a pleasure to be in the presence of such blackbelt movie stars as Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie (above, with Diego Calva). They scrapped the target in 2019 [ when only 47 homes had been constructed ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/new-zealand-housing-crisis-just-47-affordable-homes-built-in-six-months)in six months. [polling was released](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/support-for-jacinda-ardern-and-nz-labour-sinks-to-lowest-since-2017-poll-shows) that showed that support for the Labour party had dropped to its lowest level since 2017, at 33%. [laid out an ambitious plan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/04/new-zealand-scraps-overly-ambitious-plan-to-tackle-housing-crisis) to build 100,000 new homes over the next decade to help ease prices. Listening to Rush!, you’re struck by how canny their sound is, with a grab-bag of influences that’s perfect for the streaming era. With only two weeks left in office, New Zealand, and the rest of the world too, is anticipating the next political era for this small island country. The US musician was part of the original lineup of the Byrds and appeared on their first five albums. The decision to not include glass in the scheme has been criticised by campaigners as a missed opportunity. The news comes as the social care system continues to buckle under the pressure of rising unmet care demand.

Ms Ardern says she was feeling a range of emotions after announcing her departure from the role she's held since 2017 - but insisted misogyny did not play a ...

"You can have a family and be in these roles, you can lead in your own style. "I'll go home for a little bit and just pack, get ready for a bit of time in Wellington. [Ms Ardern](https://news.sky.com/topic/jacinda-ardern-8697) said: "I'll have to admit I slept well for the first time in a long time last night. Yes, but that was not the cause for my departure." [on Thursday](https://news.sky.com/story/jacinda-ardern-to-resign-as-new-zealands-pm-12789893) telling reporters she had "nothing left in the tank". Focus for the team obviously is on selecting a new leader of the Labour Party and therefore a new prime minister for New Zealand.

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation this week, she did so citing burnout. In a reflective, honest speech, she explained ...

Without it we have nothing, so it’s well worth the investment." I hope it encourages others to do the same." Our tendency is to treat the symptoms by self-medicating or seeking treatments, but we don’t often work on the causes. "It gives the impression of failure or weakness. She said that leadership was about giving as much as you can, for as long as you can, and then recognising when your time is up: "And for me, it's time." In a reflective, honest speech, she explained that she no longer had "enough in the tank" to do the job justice.

It is a far cry from 2020, when she was re-elected to become the first NZ Prime Minister to win an outright majority under an electoral system designed ...

Likewise, the solution to the homelessness crisis has been to [put people in emergency housing, usually motels](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/25-05-2022/as-labour-again-fails-to-address-the-housing-crisis-our-most-vulnerable-suffer). [came to nothing](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/new-zealand-housing-crisis-just-47-affordable-homes-built-in-six-months), as it struggled to incentivise the private sector to do so. [one in five children](https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/latest-release-of-child-poverty-statistics#:~:text=In%20the%20year%20ended%20June%202020,%2018.4%20percent%20of%20New,income%20from%20the%20baseline%20year.) lived in poverty and [inequality was high](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/new-zealands-astounding-wealth-gap-challenges-our-fair-go-identity), with the wealthiest 10% owning 59% of all of the country’s assets, while the poorest half owned 2%. The weeks-long standoff ended in [violence](https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/police-clear-protesters-camping-utside-new-zealand-s-parliament-20220302-p5a0wf.html) when police moved in to clear the protesters, and it has rent the country’s social fabric, with 64% of New Zealanders believing the [country is now more divided than ever](https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131018068/jacinda-ardern-resigns-what-was-the-point-of-all-that). [successful](https://unherd.com/2021/08/new-zealands-zero-covid-delusion/). Meanwhile, [homelessness has worsened considerably](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/new-zealand-average-stay-in-emergency-housing-rises-seven-fold-in-five-years), with more than 26,000 people waiting for social housing, up from 5,000 five years ago, as targets to build social housing have been badly missed. [not](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-pm-ardern-says-will-not-seek-re-election-2023-01-19/) “because it was hard”. Indeed, this was the reason it was trailing in the polls in late 2019, which the pandemic masked for a while: a failure of imagination. [golden ticket](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300416052/covid19-live-pm-jacinda-ardern-says-vaccination-is-the-golden-ticket-to-freedom) to freedom”. Ardern’s popularity has been [sinking](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/jacinda-arderns-popularity-plummeted-this-year-things-could-get-worse-in-2023) for over a year, the country faces a crippling [cost of living crisis,](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130683658/how-the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-hurting-frontline-new-zealanders) and her Labour government faces a daunting election this year against a resurgent centre-Right National Party. And contrary to critiques from abroad about “Covid dictatorship” and “never-ending nightmares”, the policy was actually Having faced sustained vitriol from some of her opponents, and with a young daughter born while she was in office, it’s perhaps understandable, if disappointing, that the inspiration for working mothers the world over might now want to leave politics to spend more time with her family.

The New Zealand Labour party will pick a new leader on Sunday, after Ardern's shock resignation. Who are the top contenders?

His selection would also leave Labour with two white men at the top – a problem for a party priding itself on its diversity and progressive credentials, and unlikely to provide much desired contrast with the opposition leader, Christopher Luxon. Hipkins – known as “Chippy” because of the acronym and somewhat schoolboyish demeanour – is the most experienced political hand of the candidates, and the frontrunner for the role. Against him: inexperience, particularly compared with Hipkins, and the same double-white-man problem. If one candidate secures two-thirds of the vote, they will take the helm of the party – if not, the vote will then go to the party’s wider membership to make a selection. [some hiccups](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/charlotte-bellis-new-zealand-defends-miq-strict-quarantine-pregnant-journalist-help-taliban) – kept reasonably steady control of the enormously complex legislative and communication undertakings of pandemic governance. For a government that has struggled to get some of its ambitious reform packages across the line, it represents a key legislative achievement of the past year. Ardern’s personality and profile - as a young mother and progressive, leading the most diverse parliament in New Zealand history – increasingly propelled the country on to the international stage. He is seen within Labour as a safe pair of hands and has spent the last term juggling high-profile portfolios – currently as minister for education, minister for police, and leader of the House. He has elements of the unpretentious, self deprecating humour that New Zealanders tend to embrace in their politicians: [going viral for a pandemic-era gaffe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/23/spread-your-legs-new-zealand-makes-hay-with-covid-ministers-gaffe) in which he encouraged New Zealanders to go outside and “spread their legs”, and more recently for celebrating his birthday with [a cake constructed entirely of sausage rolls.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/08/flake-news-what-is-a-sausage-roll-cake-and-why-does-it-exist) For overseas liberals, she and Aotearoa took on near-symbolic status as a liberal enclave amid the pressures of Trumpism, rightwing resurgences, misinformation and anti-democratic movements. Should it prioritise continuity and experience to right the ship? Right and left-wing coalition partners Act and the Greens were sitting at 11% apiece.

The party is receiving applications for nominations until 9am Saturday (10pm Friday GMT) ahead of the leadership vote on Sunday, Labour's chief whip said in a ...

The winner will become prime minister until the next general election, set to be held in October this year. “Caucus (the 64 Labour lawmakers in parliament) had seven days from the date of resignation to reach a decision. Candidates will need to secure the support of at least seven lawmakers to be nominated, according to the statement by Labour’s chief whip Duncan Webb.

The outgoing PM's zero-Covid policies have left New Zealand facing a difficult recovery.

It is terribly disheartening that this is not guaranteed these days, even in countries with a strong record for democracy. The centre-Right National Party has proven competitive in the polls since spring last year, and is now several percentage points ahead of the Labour Party, less than a year from the next election. But while some stay in office and attempt to improve the Covid aftermath, others walk away. Compare that to news this week from New Zealand, where business confidence is at a near 50-year low. Much of what the country is experiencing reflects global trends: economic stagnation, crippling inflation, a teetering housing market and rising interest rates. Such strict border control has stopped workers from entering or returning to the country, creating labour shortages and making the process of reopening even more difficult.

1. Her response to the Christchurch mosque attacks. <p>New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attends the Friday prayers at Hagley Park. New Zealand's ...

She was also flanked by the leftist likes of Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau, a kind of liberal power throuple, each helping the other to reaffirm their popularity. When it was announced that English backpacker and recent graduate Grace Millane had been murdered by a New Zealander while she was touring the country, Ardern addressed her death with a tenderness rarely seen in politicians. Jacinda “mania” sounds more like something you’d ascribe to The Beatles or One Direction, but for the first time in a long time, the fandoms found a politician. "I cannot imagine the grief of her family and what they would be experiencing and feeling right now. But, in a classic twist of good Ardern PR, the comment was recorded in Hansard, and the transcript sold at a charity auction for over $100,000. Ardern is credited for keeping a lid on Covid outbreaks, thanks to closing New Zealand’s borders early on in March 2020. Ardern was stung by a hot mic when she made a comment under her breath about David Seymour, leader of New Zealand’s libertarian ACT party. Unfortunately, this is a relatively minor incident for Ardern, who has faced death threats and misogyny throughout her time in office. “But I am confident with all of the support I'm very lucky to have, we will absolutely make it work.” In 2018, a year into her premiership, Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford welcomed a baby girl and named her Neve. “And, to others, I implore you: speak the names of those who were lost, rather than the name of the man who took them. Ardern visited the grieving community the next day at Kilbirnie Mosque, where she hugged Muslim men and women alike, and spoke to them with sorrow and compassion.

We worry about our families, ourselves, the threats and society's expectations. When it leads to burnout, can anyone be surprised?, says MP and author Jess ...

The thing that burns my fuel to the point of a flashing emergency light and a blaring alarm is the abuse and threat of violence that has become par for the course for political women. This work takes more fuel – fuel others don’t have to use up in the pursuit of a political life. Alas, even as I pen my suggestions for change, I know that it is women who will have to do the labour to achieve it, just like we always do. When my children at school have to answer questions from their classmates about stances I have taken, or are told hateful and untrue things that have been published about me, or when they act hyper-vigilantly in public crowds, aware of the threat to us, my heart breaks and more fuel burns up. The pressure pushed on to working women is tiring enough without it being amped up by being a public woman – and the worst of all offences, to some, a political woman. This is not to say that most working women don’t just push through this: they do so every single day in every single workforce in the country.

Late-night hosts discuss Ardern's resignation as prime minister of New Zealand, George Santos's past and Republican infighting.

“So now his goal is to make it seem like that golf mausoleum he lives in in Florida is some kind of Fort Knox.” “Wait a minute, who is like you?” Kimmel interjected. “He’s gonna have to live in one. “I would’ve gone with something fun, like Anita Alibi or Ivana Pawnyourjewelry.” “Wow, George Santos did something interesting!” Colbert laughed. “It’s time,” Ardern, who has served for six years, said in her announcement.