Mike Munro’s parliamentary career spans gallery journalist in the time of Muldoon and Lange, spin doctor to Helen Clark and chief of staff for Jacinda Ardern.
Mike Munro landed in the New Zealand parliamentary press gallery in 1984, as the tide was going out on the remarkable reign of Robert Muldoon. The inhabitants of his new workplace would regale him with stories about stories, and how they’d been won. In Ringside: A Political Memoir, Munro …