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Listen: John Key's final interview on The Country

The Country
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It's the end of an era at The Country as Jamie Mackay interviews John Key as Prime Minister of New Zealand for the last time in 10 years.

It's the end of an era at The Country as Jamie Mackay interviews John Key as Prime Minister of New Zealand for the last time in 10 years.

Is apolitical Jamie finally going to hit the PM with the hard questions? Well no...he's been told to keep it "light and fluffy". Dom unkindly thinks this is business as usual.

Key reckons the National Party is in safe hands at the moment with Bill English and he is happy to leave when they are going well in the polls.

John Key is also happy with the way he is leaving the economy in New Zealand but does he have any regrets?

Back to the light and fluffies - Mackay is keen to review Key's gaffes and abilities to laugh at himself over the past decade as Prime Minister.

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Finally, ever the gentleman, Prime Minister John Key politely declines an invitation to play golf with Jamie Mackay as he will be teeing off with some guy called Obama in Hawaii.

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