[applause] good afternoon. I have just been to see her majesty, the clean, who has invited me to form a government and i have accepted. I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor and her deep sense of public service. But in spite of all her effort it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad who would think after three years of indecision that this country has become a prisoner to the old arguments of 2016. And in this home of democracy we are incapable of honoring a democratic mandate. And so i am standing before you today to tell you, the british people, that those critics are wrong. The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against britain are going to lose their shirts because were going to restore trust in our democracy. And were going to fulfill the repeated promises of parliament to the people, and come out of the eu on october 31, no ifs or buts. And we will do a new deal, a bette
National Party: Three senior staffers departing Judith Collins office
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Judith Collins week goes from bad to worse as National served up a smorgasbord of debacles, writes James Elliott
The country was stricken by an icy shock wave this week. Plunging temperatures were attributed to a so-called “polar blast”, a conveyer belt of freezing southerlies apparently streaming north directly from Antarctica. I realise that it’s dangerous territory for a lay person to opine on meteorological matters but in this case the weather wizards were clearly wrong in attributing the freeze to a polar blast. It was obvious to any casual observer that the freeze was coming directly from the perpetual winter that is National’s caucus room.