End of reign for New Zealand kingmaker Winston Peters

Winston Peters, the kingmaker who put Jacinda Ardern into power three years ago and served as her deputy prime minister, was Saturday a significant casualty of the landslide victory for Ardern’s Labour Party in the New Zealand election. However, the 75-year-old who first entered parliament 41 years ago, refused to say his long and colourful political career was over. “For any challenge it is the preparedness to stand up and take on the…