Webb said he would then \u201csee what\u2019s out there\u201d, saying he believed he had \u201canother exciting career in me yet\u201d.<\/p>\n
Webb has held the Christchurch Central seat since 2017. He was a minister in the last Labour Government, holding the portfolios of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and State-Owned Enterprises. He was also the chief whip.<\/p>\n
In August, senior Labour MP Megan Woods said she would not contest her Wigram seat, which she\u2019s held for 15 years, in the 2026 election.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, Woods confirmed after \u201cdeep reflection\u201d she would not seek the Christchurch seat next year, but would remain on Labour\u2019s list.<\/p>\n
More to come …<\/p>\n
Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Webb said he would then \u201csee what\u2019s out there\u201d, saying he believed he had \u201canother exciting career in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,806,1853,4487,57374,13116,6175,5903,71,6721,6368,111,43,139,69,135,56639,3056,7248,11925,5843,61,1865,3329,1533,14443],"class_list":["post-91067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-as","tag-central","tag-christchurch","tag-confirming","tag-contest","tag-duncan","tag-election","tag-from","tag-labour","tag-mp","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-reelection","tag-resign","tag-seat","tag-seek","tag-senior","tag-to","tag-today","tag-webb","tag-will","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}