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No urgent desire for Key to be knighted

Surprisingly little enthusiasm is seen for New Zealand's most popular prime minister becoming Sir John any time soon – if at all. With reader poll result.

Nick Grant
Mon, 12 Dec 2016

As one of the columnists in last week’s print edition of NBR has somewhat cynically noted, “Gone-by-Monday Prime Minister John Key shrewdly picked a retirement date amenable for collecting one of those New Year’s honour knighthoods he personally reinstated.”

Whether such a consideration played

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Nick Grant
Mon, 12 Dec 2016
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