2 Dec 2021

Luxon appoints Bridges to National's Finance portfolio

From Checkpoint, 5:38 pm on 2 December 2021

The new National leader has made his first major appointment - giving his almost-rival Simon Bridges the much-coveted and high-profile finance portfolio.

Christopher Luxon travelled to Tauranga today to make the announcement alongside the local MP - but it didn't go quite as planned.

Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.