GARETH HUGHES: Kia ora. It's been such a privilege to serve here. Growing up in Gisborne, politics seemed distant. I never ever would have dreamt that I'd be an MP one day, let alone be one here for more than a decade. I arrived here dead broke. I'd been living on an NGO salary and I even had to borrow money off Jeanette Fitzsimons to buy my first suit. Embarrassingly, I could tie knots to climb tall buildings but I didn't know how to tie a tie. I entered at the age of 28, taking Jacinda Ardern's place as the baby of the House. The next year, Jacinda and I shared the award of the New Zealand Herald's backbencher of the year. If politics was a race, though, I think she's lapped me a couple of dozen times since then. I am so proud, though, as a New Zealander at such a time of global uncertainty, that she is the one leading us and inspiring the world.