By Deanna Harris
A 1987 video has been unearthed featuring a 25-year-old squash-playing, accountancy graduate John Key.
The bright-eyed Mr Key features in an early Close-Up story called Big Dealers.
The “portrait of 80s job du jour: foreign exchange dealer”, shows the now Prime Minister in “the pit” (trading room) as a senior forex dealer.
“Forex dealing is a work hard, play hard world with an image of rich brats who wreck restaurants but always somewhere else,” says the reporter.
“I am not denying that, that has happened and I guess that will happen again in the future but I personally perform in that way,” Mr Key responded.
Watch the full 1987 video featuring “the super bright, young, whizz-kids dealing in millions everyday with a personal lifestyle to match”.
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