Not much more than an hour before National MPs were due to vote on the leadership, former leader Simon Bridges has withdrawn from the race in favour of former Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon.
Bridges tweeted this afternoon that he had met with Luxon this morning and had had a
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