New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been the first Commonwealth leader to rule out her country becoming a republic while she is in power, in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Last year Barbados became a republic, and on Sunday Gaston Browne, the prime minister of another Caribbean nation, Antigua and Barbuda, said he would push for a referendum on becoming a republic in the next three years.
Browne told ITV: “This is not an act of hostility or any difference between Antigua and Barbuda and the monarchy, but it is the final step to complete that circle of independence, to ensure that we are truly a sovereign nation.”…