Jacinda Ardern Instagram – When I left parliament there were a few questions I got asked quite often – are your family happy to have you back (mostly 😂) and will you write about your time in office? At first, my answer was no.  I didn’t want to write a book that hauled over the internal politics of the last five years, and then someone convinced me that I didn’t have to. That maybe it might be worth expanding on some of things I talked about in my valedictory instead—like the idea you can be your own kind of leader and still make a difference.  And so that’s what I’m planning to do.   I’ve seen a bit of speculation about me writing, but there’s not too much more to say other than I’m planning on doing it and will be working with a lovely team of publishers (including Penguin in NZ and Australia, Macmillan in the UK and Crown in the United States.)   There’s no set date for when it will be done- the Christchurch call work on violent extremism and terrorism online is keeping me pretty busy- but I hope when it’s done, it’s the kind of book that would have made a difference to my 14 year old self. (📸 Today -finishing up in Wellington after Chch call meetings.)