Lisa Nandy

Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Wigan constituency since 2010. Born in Manchester, Nandy is the daughter of Bengali Marxist professor Dipak Nandy and granddaughter of Liberal MP Frank Byers. She attended Parrs Wood High School and was later educated at Holy Cross College. Nandy studied politics at Newcastle University and then obtained a master's degree from Birkbeck, University of London. She worked as a researcher and caseworker for the Walthamstow Labour MP Neil Gerrard, and then for homelessness charity Centrepoint, and then subsequently as a senior policy adviser at The Children's Society. She served as a Labour councillor for the Hammersmith Broadway ward on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council from 2006 to 2010. Nandy was elected to Parliament as MP for Wigan at the 2010 general election. She joined the frontbench under Ed Miliband as Shadow Children and Young Families Minister in 2012, and in 2013 she was moved to become shadow charities minister. Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader, she was promoted to the shadow cabinet as shadow energy secretary in 2015. She resigned from the position as part of the 2016 shadow cabinet resignations in protest against Corbyn's leadership. Following Labour's defeat in the 2019 general election, Nandy stood in the party leadership election to replace Corbyn, but finished third behind Keir Starmer. She subsequently was appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary under Starmer, before becoming shadow housing secretary in 2021. In a 2023 reshuffle, she was demoted to shadow cabinet minister for international development. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Nandy was appointed to Cabinet as...