David Seymour

David Breen Seymour is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 21st deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 2025 and as the 1st minister for regulation since 2023. A member of the ACT Party, he has served as its leader and as the member of parliament for Epsom since 2014. Typically classified as a right-libertarian populist, Seymour has liberal views on freedom of choice and economic policy, and conversely majoritarian and reactionary views on New Zealand civic nationalism and indigenous rights.