Interview: John Key

With John Key in the middle of his tricky second term as Prime Minister and the polls starting to slide, where does he go from here?

By Guyon Espiner In Politics

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23rd June, 2012

Protesters picketing the Prime Minister’s speech venue accuse him of “selling New Zealand”. He agrees with them. “If you were really going to go out and buy a country, why wouldn’t you want to buy New Zealand?” he asks. But John Key is unapologetic about his overtly commercial approach. He’s impatient at progress to allow SkyCity more pokies in return for a new convention centre and more jobs. “Opponents would want to criticise it for a lack of process. In fact the argument has probably been that there is too much process and it has been negotiated for two years.” He changed ...

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