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Katherine Rich

Gordon Campbell talks to Katherine Rich (National's social welfare spokesman)

By Gordon Campbell In Commentary

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31st July, 2004
She's just bought the Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits package and "Sweet Child o' Mine" is a personal favourite. Katherine Rich, the 36-year-old niece of former Labour MP Clive Matthewson, is the modern marketing vehicle for National's social welfare policy ... Was it a life of privilege? Did you ever play polo on a Shetland pony as a kid? No, not for me. It's one of those perceptions people have of the party. But when you start to look at the lives of a lot of my colleagues, it's a pretty average background at home. There's not the twinset and pearls that people expect. So, ...

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