But the reasons why I wanted to meet him were mainly two. First, as I said, he was a giant on the world stage who can be, I think, solely responsible, as much as any one person can, for the belief and the mantra that New Zealand is a trading nation. Some of his fellow travellers from his early career have also been fellow travellers of ACT, and they tell me—as was acknowledged by Simon Bridges—that he was responsible for seeing that the Labour Party became supporters of Closer Economic Relations in 1983. Without that sort of consensus in this House, we couldn't have made that relationship with our nearest neighbours a model for the world in trade relationships, and this theme of cross-partisanship would actually come to punctuate his career. 