Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand PM resigns.

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, a global figurehead of progressive politics, shocked the country by announcing on Thursday that she would resign from office in weeks.

The 42-year-old – who saw the country the country through natural disasters, the Covid pandemic, and its worst-ever terror attack – said she no longer had “enough in the tank”.

Feeling that she has done her best, she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party, “I am human. We give as much as we can for as long as we can and then it’s time. And for me, it’s time.

Ardern said she would step down no later than February 7, less than three years after winning a landslide election to secure her second term in office.