WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s socially conservative finance chief Bill English was sworn in as the country’s new prime minister on Monday following last week’s shock resignation of his popular predecessor John Key.
The center-right National Party caucus unanimously backed English at a meeting on Monday morning and he traveled to Government House in Wellington a few hours later to officially take over.
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