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Bill English is former leader of the National Party and prime minister of New Zealand

‘Confident but paranoid’: Bill English reflects on election 2017

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The former prime minister looks back on an enjoyable election that prompted massive public interest – an election which produced a unique result, and unique challenges for both the government and the new opposition  This is the second in a series of extracts from the new VUP collection Stardust and Substance. Read Jacinda Ardern’s review … Read more

There’s the Hill Out There: A poem by Bill English, prime minister of New Zealand

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A new work by our leading political poet. When Bill English grasped the reins of power last year, he plunged a concrete post of literature into the tender soils of New Zealand by reading aloud a bit of poetry. This week, courageously, to staunch the bleeding of the national auditory canal brought on by Colin … Read more