One of the greatest shocks of my political time was becoming a new Minister back in 2014 and rocking up with my many priorities that I was going to do as Minister of Commerce and discovering that the officials looked at me and said, "Well, of course you might want to do your 10 things, but we can only do five bills at once and four of them are compulsory, and if you want to do another one, you've got to drop three others." The ultimate consequence of it is that a Minister learns very early on that they need to prioritise how they're going to use their ministry and the limited resources that they have to focus on what really matters. 