Finance and Cyclone Minister Grant Robertson poses with British singer Billy Bragg after their lunch date in Wellington today. Photo / Supplied
New Zealand’s newly appointed Cyclone Minister had an extra special dinner date with a famed left-wing musician in Wellington today.
Grant Robertson and British singer Billy Bragg talked Labour politics and Bragg’s 1980s tour dates over a curry in the nation’s capital before posing for a photo which Bragg posted
to his Twitter feed.
“Talking with the taxman about poetry,” Bragg wrote, referencing his 1986 album of the same name.
When he combined the personal and the political in songs of love and conscience in the middle of the 1980s, Bragg rose to fame among critics and became a champion of populist activism.
