Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Assumed office
5 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byLucy Frazer
Shadow cabinet positions
Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development
In office
4 September 2023 – 5 July 2024
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byPreet Gill
Succeeded byHarriett Baldwin
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
In office
29 November 2021 – 4 September 2023
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded bySteve Reed[a]
Succeeded byAngela Rayner
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office
5 April 2020 – 29 November 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byEmily Thornberry
Succeeded byDavid Lammy[b]
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office
13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byCaroline Flint
Succeeded byBarry Gardiner
Junior shadow portfolios
Shadow Minister for Civil Society
In office
7 October 2013 – 14 September 2015
LeaderEd Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded byGareth Thomas
Succeeded by
Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families
In office
15 May 2012 – 9 October 2013
LeaderEd Miliband
Preceded byCatherine McKinnell
Succeeded bySteve McCabe
Member of Parliament
for Wigan
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byNeil Turner
Majority9,549 (23.3%)
Personal details
Born
Lisa Eva Nandy

(1979-08-09) 9 August 1979 (age 45)
Manchester, England
Political partyLabour
Children1
Parent
RelativesFrank Byers (maternal grandfather)
Alma mater
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Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport since 2024. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. Nandy previously served as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Shadow Energy Secretary and Shadow International Development Minister.

Nandy was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell from 2010 to 2012, Shadow Minister for Children from 2012 to 2013, and Shadow Minister for Charities and Civil Society from 2012 to 2015, with responsibility for Labour Policy on the voluntary sector. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2015, shadowing Amber Rudd, until she resigned in 2016 to co-chair Owen Smith's leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn.

After a further four years as a backbench MP, Nandy stood as a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, coming in third place with 16.3% of the vote, behind Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey. Starmer subsequently appointed Nandy as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in April 2020. Following a reshuffle in November 2021, Nandy was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.


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