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'The anti-Trump': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern earns nickname from Vogue

The fashion bible hails the fledgling leader’s ‘fearlessness’ in a gushing profile backed up by a high-fashion photo shoot
Jacinda Ardern photographed for Vogue’s March 2018 issue in which she was hailed as ‘unabashedly liberal’. Photograph: Derek Henderson/VOGUE

The prime minister of New Zealand may have a new nickname on the international stage – “the anti-Trump”.

That’s according to, which profiled 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern for its March issue, shooting the prime minister on a windswept North Island beach wearing clothes by New Zealand designers in a picture that is being described as “beautiful” and high fashion.

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