Steven Joyce: The Insider

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Steven Joyce was one of the most senior ministers in the Key National Government and the National Party's campaign strategist since 2005. He entered Parliament in 2008 when National came back into power and led the party's winning campaigns in 2011 and 2014.

John Key, Bill English and Steven Joyce were the three key powerbrokers of the Key government, with Joyce being both strategist and enforcer of party discipline.

Joyce was a senior minister for nearly all of his 10 years in Parliament and gained a reputation as "minister for everything" when then-Prime Minister John Key took to sending him in to clean up messes like the Novopay debacle and chose him to run the new super-ministry the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). He spent eight years as an effective apprentice to former Finance Minister Bill English, before becoming Finance Minister when English became Prime Minister. He has also held the heavyweight transport and infrastructure portfolios.


Joyce reveals what it takes to win and keep office, and the secrets behind the strategy and campaigning that lead to National being in power for almost a decade. This is an essential read for political junkies: packed full of insider knowledge, honest appraisals of the main players, the background drama and egos, plus A-grade political gossip.

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Steven Joyce entered the New Zealand House of Representatives in 2008 as a member of the New Zealand National Party. In the same year he became Minister of Transport and Minister for Communications and Information Technology. He later became Minister of Science and Innovation, and then served as Minister for Finance and Minister for Infrastructure.

As a broadcasting entrepreneur with RadioWorks, he was a millionaire before he entered politics.

Steven now runs his own business consultancy and writes a fortnightly opinion piece in The New Zealand Herald.