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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1446/
- Published: 2026-04-02T17:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-02T17:32:10.000Z
- Description: Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Christopher Luxon’s [Cabinet reshuffle](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591342/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-announces-election-year-cabinet-reshuffle?ref=goodoil.news) made two things very clear on Thursday.  
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> Firstly, that the Prime Minister doesn’t trust one of his most competent ministers enough to leave him in charge of his party’s election campaign.  
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> And secondly, he’s become aware New Zealand First and ACT are doing a better job of winning over the rural vote.  
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> Those two realisations resulted in Chris Bishop being unceremoniously dumped as campaign chair just seven months out from the election, and first-term MP – the relatively unknown Wairarapa farmer Mike Butterick – being thrust into a ministerial role.  
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> Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.  
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> Asked for the rationale he pointed to the “workload” Bishop was under.  
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> RNZ

[Read More](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591377/why-was-chris-bishop-unceremoniously-dumped-as-campaign-chair-in-luxon-s-cabinet-reshuffle?ref=goodoil.news)