Lisa Nandy

The Right Honourable Lisa Nandy MP
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Lucy Frazer
Shadow cabinet positions Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development In office 4 September 2023 – 5 July 2024 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Preet Gill Succeeded by Harriett Baldwin 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
Junior shadow portfolios 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 Ian Lavery Anna Turley 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
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Neil Turner
Majority	9,549 (23.3%)
Personal details
Born	Lisa Eva Nandy (1979-08-09) 9 August 1979 (age 45) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour
Children	1
Parent	Dipak Nandy (father)
Relatives	Frank Byers (maternal grandfather)
Alma mater	Newcastle University (BA) Birkbeck, University of London (MA)
Signature
Website	lisanandy.laboursites.org

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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