Grant Murray Robertson is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as the 19th deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 2020 and the minister of Finance since 2017. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Wellington Central since 2008.
Who Are Grant Robertson’s Parents?
Robertson was born in Palmerston North, the youngest of three boys. His Presbyterian family lived in Hastings before settling in South Dunedin. His mother initially stayed at home before later becoming a teacher.
His father Doug Robertson was an accountant, who was imprisoned in 1991 for stealing around $120,000 from the law firm he worked for. His grandfather Bob Wilkie ran unsuccessfully for Labour in the Wairarapa electorate in 1954 and 1957.
Robertson’s father was jailed in 1991 when Robertson was just 19. He came out to his mum after the shock of the incarceration had begun to calm. “I remember my mother’s reaction,” he tells us. “It was still in the worst days of HIV and AIDS.