{"id":1721,"date":"2022-06-13T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2022-06-13T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:16:20","slug":"prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-to-announce-minor-cabinet-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to announce &#8216;minor&#8217; Cabinet reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will unveil her promised Cabinet reshuffle this afternoon following a Labour caucus meeting to sign off on the changes.<\/p>\n<p>MPs from around the country dialed into the conference call from 8am. Labour requires a vote be held for new members to join the Executive.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed Ardern would announce some &#8220;minor&#8221; changes to the Cabinet line-up at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern had earlier signalled she would refresh the team around the mid-year mark, which is not unusual for a government mid-term.<\/p>\n<p>Police Minister Poto Williams has come under under increasing pressure over the handling of her portfolio in recent months amid a spate of gang violence and shootings in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>National Party leader Christopher Luxon last week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/468706\/christopher-luxon-urges-poto-williams-to-be-removed-as-police-minister\">called for her to be replaced<\/a>, saying she was out of her depth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poto Williams may have skills better suited to other portfolios, but it is clear she is not equipped to be Police Minister, especially at a time when gang activity and violent crime are increasing,&#8221; Luxon said.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to come&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source : RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will unveil her promised Cabinet reshuffle this afternoon following a Labour caucus meeting to sign off on the changes. MPs from around the country dialed into the conference call from 8am. Labour requires a vote be held for new members to join the Executive. A spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,5],"tags":[59,127],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news","category-politics","tag-featured","tag-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}