Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand | Jacinda Ardern | The Guardian
I don t want to leave the impression that the adversity you face in politics is the reason that people exit. Yes, it does have an impact. We are humans after all, but that was not the basis of my decision, she said.
Ardern said she had no future plans, other than to spend more time with her family.
She thanked her partner, Clarke Gayford, and daughter Neve, whom she gave birth to while holding office, as the ones that have sacrificed the most out of all of us .
To Neve: mum is looking forward to being there when you start school this year. And to Clarke let s finally get married.
Goodness. So Ms. Arden, Prime Minister of the NZ, is shortly to deprive us of her nearly miraculous presence. I do not really mind, but I might feel much differently were I my wife’s cousins. They must find it rather insufferable to put up with the Prime Minister’s innocent bullying and steel hand in the good old fashioned cotton glove routine. The platonic ideal of the nanny in the nanny state.
But apparently she has been frightened out of office — at least that’s how I interpret her. Who has got her goat? Either that or she just has an abnormal demand for leisure, and some people are like that.