5 Apr 2023

Jacinda Ardern's time as PM as she leaves parliament

From Morning Report, 7:14 am on 5 April 2023

Jacinda Ardern's delivers her valedictory speech today ending her political career of five and a half years as Prime Minister and more than 14 years as an MP. 

In January, she quit the top job saying she "no longer had enough left in the tank".

Speaking last night on TVNZ, she told John Campbell she believed she fulfilled the hopes and goals she stood by when she became Prime Minister in 2017. 

Ultimately she said her hope was her resignation would mute much of the toxic rhetoric which had coalesced around her.

Here's a short look back at her five-and-a-bit frenetic years in charge, beginning with the 2017 election night.