Lisa Nandy

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]

Lisa Nandy
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 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	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	6,728 (14.9%)
Personal details
Born	Lisa Eva Nandy (1979-08-09) 9 August 1979 (age 46) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour
Children	1
Father	Dipak Nandy
Relatives	Frank Byers (grandfather)
Alma mater	Newcastle University (BA) Birkbeck, University of London (MA)

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]

Notes

1. Brief previously covered by Reed as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary and Lucy Powell as Shadow Housing Secretary.
2. As Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.