Jacinda Ardern's 'Fart Tax' Fuels Rightward Shift in Local New Zealand Elections

The UK Guardian on Monday found ominous portents for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s far-left Labor party in the latest round of local elections, which looked like a grassroots taxpayer revolt against the once-popular PM and her authoritarian policies – or a “lurch to the right in most major centers,” as the Guardian put it.