Courage under fire
She’s widely known as Labour’s Ms Fixit. A safe pair of hands. One to manage political hot potatoes with dexterity and aplomb. She’s also the woman running Labour’s re-election campaign.
I meet Megan Woods in her elegant Beehive office. It’s 6.30 in the evening. She’s been here since eight this morning and won’t leave the building until after 10pm.
“A lot of people don’t know that when the house is sitting we have to stay in the precinct till 10.” The house generally sits three days a week. The rest of the time you’ll find Megan in meetings in the Beehive or back home in Christchurch doing what she does best and enjoys the most – connecting with people.
She is a warm, genial woman with a razor-sharp intellect. She’s tight with the Labour government’s
