John Key Government

Well, that's exactly the same line that, well, not exactly the same, but a similar line to what Mike Hosking talked yesterday when he interviewed me about the book. But the fact is that... Helen Clark, how I judged her was her ability to lead her own team. And I think, you know, I haven't seen a leader in Parliament, any one of the 12 that hasn't led as well and fairly firm as Helen Clark led the Labour government. I thought she was, you know, a standout. And it was an innovative government that a lot of people don't realise, you know, what they did. They brought in Kiwi Bank, thanks to Jim Anderton. They had the Cullen Fund, which is a superannuation fund that is now worth over $70 billion. I mean, they've made some significant changes. Whereas John Key certainly was a good prime minister, but he had the advantage of taking over at a time that Labour had just... Science, the China Free Trade Agreement, and of course he was facing the global financial crisis, but certainly with money coming in from China, New Zealand survived relatively well, even though John Key was described by one journalist in Hong Kong as presiding over a rock star economy. That was the opinion of one, but it certainly grew. And he wasn't sort of disabusing anybody who wanted to use that title.