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Ryan Bridge: Winston was always going to turn on Luxon
This was always going to happen. The closer you get to the election, the more your friends become your enemies under MMP.
Winston's office released OIA docs showing Luxon's people wanted to go further in supporting Trump's war in Iran.
The Foreign Minister's office and MFAT, in their wisdom, cautioned against it. For what most of us would probably understand to be good reasons. This was straight after the war began.
This is a story in the Herald this morning:
A spokesman for Peters said Luxon’s support for the war was “imprudent” and would have “run counter to New Zealand’s national…
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