Luxon's inexperience costs him international power play

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Not an especially good start since it has the effect of making him look inefficient.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...power-play




ANALYSIS: “There’ll be another APEC.”

And with those words, Christopher Luxon choked back his first heaped serving of humble pie, having been dealt an early bruising lesson by playing in the sandpit with the big kids.

Whatever Luxon’s opening offer was to his respective coalition partners, it clearly didn’t pass muster. It wasn’t enough for the prime minister-elect to safely meet his foolhardy self-imposed APEC deadline.

As Jacinda Ardern and Labour can attest, being in coalition with Winston Peters and NZ First means actually being in coalition, it means compromise, it means consultation – and if those three c’s aren’t met, brace for a healthy dose of the three h’s: humility, hubris and humiliation.