The two signature policy achievements of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, are roughly equivalent to measures passed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – that is, they get New Zealand to a point reached by Great Britain some 10 or 20 years ago. Her Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018 is closely modelled on the UK's (now-abandoned) Child Poverty Act 2010, itself an enshrining of Blair's famous 1999 pledge to eliminate the issue within a generation. And her Zero Carbon Act 2020 creates much of the apparatus – including carbon budgets and an independent climate advisory body – that the UK has enjoyed since Brown's Climate Change Act 2008, albeit the latter never envisaged net zero emissions.
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