The Woman Seeking to Dethrone Political Superstar Jacinda Ardern
- New Zealand opposition puts faith in Collins as election looms
- ‘It’s an extremely difficult job, and that’s why I’ve got it’
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She’s trying to topple a political superstar, but Judith Collins says she isn’t daunted.
The new leader of New Zealand’s opposition National Party -- nicknamed “Crusher Collins” after her spell as a hard-line police minister -- will need all her resolve to beat Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the Sept. 19 election.
“It’s an extremely difficult job, and that’s why I’ve got it,” Collins, 61, said in an interview in her parliamentary office in Wellington. “I don’t fear much at all.”