Heather du Plessis-Allan: Ardern doesn’t have to confess her cannabis vote

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date October 2, 2020

OPINION:

I can’t quite understand the fixation people have with trying to force Jacinda Ardern to tell us how she’s going to vote in the cannabis referendum.

She was asked again last night in the …

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