The 2017 Mood of the Boardroom report showed an overwhelming majority of chief executives see Jacinda Ardern’s confirmation as leader of the Labour Party as an election game-changer. There was a strong mood for change among the 118 respondents to the Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom Election Survey. Some 88 per cent saw Ardern as the lightning rod which could …

Labour’s water spokesman David Parker’s standing by the party’s plan for farmers to pay for water, and says critics who say produce prices will go up are scaremongering. CORIN Good morning to you. Let’s clear this up. What is the rate that you would charge farmers?  DAVID Farmers, as opposed to water-bottlers, we’ve said 1or 2 cents per thousand litres. …

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he’s comfortable with the UK selling billions of dollars’ worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, which have been used to kill thousands of civilians in Yemen. Johnson says there needs to be an internationally recognised means to look at the funding of terrorism, following allegations of various Gulf States funding terrorist groups overseas. “The …