While conservative critics have condemned Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for creating a 'nanny state' during New Zealand's strict lockdown, the country has done better than flatten its curve, experts say — it has crushed it.
, who lectures at New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington, says communicating is Ardern's"superpower.""as soft or fluffy," he says."But it reassures people. It helps maintain a sense of mutuality in society ... and that creates trust with the leader."
Conservative critics have condemned her leadership as creating a"nanny state" that closed national borders,But former Prime Minister Helen Clark,"This is the kind of crisis which will make or break leaders. And this will make Jacinda."
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