Lisa Nandy | |
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Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Lucy Frazer |
Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development | |
In office 4 September 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Preet Gill |
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |
In office 29 November 2021 – 4 September 2023 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Steve Reed[a] |
Succeeded by | Angela Rayner |
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 5 April 2020 – 29 November 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Emily Thornberry |
Succeeded by | David Lammy[b] |
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
In office 13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
Preceded by | Caroline Flint |
Succeeded by | Barry Gardiner |
Shadow Minister for Civil Society | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 14 September 2015 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) |
Preceded by | Gareth Thomas |
Succeeded by |
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Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families | |
In office 15 May 2012 – 9 October 2013 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Catherine McKinnell |
Succeeded by | Steve McCabe |
Member of Parliament for Wigan | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Neil Turner |
Majority | 6,728 (14.9%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Lisa Eva Nandy 9 August 1979 Manchester, England |
Political party | Labour |
Children | 1 |
Father | Dipak Nandy |
Relatives | Frank Byers (grandfather) |
Alma mater |
Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. She was Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from September 2015 until June 2016.[1][2] She became the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 5 April 2020.[3]
Nandy ran in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election. Out of three candidates she came in third place and received 79,597 votes, representing 16.2% of the total vote.[4]
A day after the 2020 Labour Party leadership election on 5 April 2020, the winning candidate, Keir Starmer, appointed Nandy in the shadow cabinet in the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.[3]
Following the 2024 general election, Nandy was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.[5] She was appointed to the Privy Council and sworn into ministerial office on 6 July.[6]