Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party abolished knighthoods and damehoods in 2000, but National brought them back in 2009, subsequently knighting two of their own – John Key in 2017 and Bill English in 2018.
Ardern has now stepped into the tradition, receiving a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand
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