David Caygill
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The Honourable David Caygill CNZM |
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Caygill in 2013
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| 28th Minister of Health | |
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In office 24 August 1987 – 30 January 1989 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lange |
| Preceded by | Michael Bassett |
| Succeeded by | Helen Clark |
| Constituency | St Albans |
| 36th Minister of Finance | |
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In office 14 December 1988 – 2 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lange Geoffrey Palmer Mike Moore |
| Preceded by | Roger Douglas |
| Succeeded by | Ruth Richardson |
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David Francis Caygill 15 November 1948 Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Political party | Labour |
David Francis Caygill, CNZM (born 15 November 1948 in Christchurch), is a former New Zealand politician. After being New Zealand's youngest city councillor at 22 (in Christchurch), he was an MP from 1978 to 1996, representing the Labour Party. He served as Minister of Finance between 1988 and 1990.
Caygill's early political philosophies were aligned with the National Party and he chaired the St Albans branch of the Young Nationals as a schoolboy. His allegiance switched to Labour in part due to the Vietnam War, which Labour opposed.
Caygill was a councillor of Christchurch City Council from 1971 to 1980. On 29 April 1974, he became the city's youngest ever acting Mayor for a period of five days.
Caygill was first elected to Parliament in the 1978 elections as MP for the Christchurch electorate of St Albans. He served for six terms.
When the Fourth Labour Government was formed after the 1984 elections, Caygill aligned himself with Roger Douglas, the controversial Minister of Finance. Douglas, Caygill, and Richard Prebble were together dubbed "the Treasury Troika", and were responsible for most of the economic reform undertaken by the Labour government. The "Rogernomics" reforms, which were based on free market economic theory, were unpopular with many traditional Labour supporters, but Caygill managed to avoid the worst of the condemnation directed towards Douglas and Prebble. When the two became founding members of the ACT New Zealand political party in 1994, Caygill chose not to join them.
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