'I've got what it takes': will Jacinda Ardern be New Zealand's next prime minister?

A week before the election, Labour’s leader talks to the Guardian about immigration, sexism and how she would handle Trump

It is a week before the New Zealand election and the Labour leader, Jacinda Ardern, is raising her voice above the cacophony at the Tahunanui community centre in the coastal town of Nelson where a crowd has come to meet the 37-year-old woman hailed as the latest saviour of the left.

Just weeks ago her prominence on the general election campaign trail was unthinkable. Ardern, then deputy leader, had declared that every colleague would have to be hit by a bus before she would step up as the “designated survivor”.

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