Thursday, 20 May 2021, 4:22 pm
As he brought this year’s Budget together Finance
Minister Grant Robertson would have been mindful of three
factors.
First, the Budget should set out significant
steps towards reducing inequality, child poverty especially.
This, after all, had been a pillar of Labour’s campaign
prior to coming to office in 2017. So far, partly because of
previous Coalition constraints and more latterly the onset
of Covid19, alongside its own innate caution, Labour’s
record on this front had been rather dismal, with most
indicators showing little to no positive movement, and some
even going backwards. Now, as a majority government