The name she dared not utter

Stuff reports:

There were two words conspicuously missing from Jacinda Ardern’s final speech in Parliament: Winston Peters.

Ardern in her valedictory speech delivered in the House on Wednesday afternoon provided an account of her time as an aspiring politician, MP, and prime minister. She canvassed policies, crises, and colleagues including her “brilliant” former Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson.

Her other deputy prime minister, Peters, and Labour’s coalition with his party New Zealand First from 2017 to 2020 went entirely unmentioned. 

This is pretty rude considering that Peters is the person who near unilaterally made her Prime Minister. If Winston had not chosen her, she would probably be in her third term as Leader of the Opposition.