Jacinda Arden’s husband: 'I slept in the spare room so she could do her job'

Jacinda Arden’s husband: 'I slept in the spare room so she could do her job'

Jacinda Ardern’s political rise was so sudden that her partner Clarke Gayford “didn’t even own a suit” when she became leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party. It was August 2017, and once he’d been shopping, Gayford’s first instinct was to pick up a video camera. “It felt monumental, and no one [was] filming it. No one was even taking photos,” Gayford says. “I remember borrowing a camera from a friend because I felt it was so significant, and beca…