Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy MP
Official portrait, 2020
Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 September 2023
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 44) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour
Children	1
Parent	Dipak Nandy (father)
Relatives	Frank Byers (grandfather)
Alma mater	Newcastle University (BA) Birkbeck, University of London (MA)
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Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development in 2023.^[1] She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. Nandy previously served as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary and Shadow Energy Secretary.

Nandy was born in Manchester and educated at Parrs Wood High School and Holy Cross College before studying politics at Newcastle University and public policy at Birkbeck, University of London. She then worked as an aide to Walthamstow MP Neil Gerrard, a researcher for homelessness charity Centrepoint and as a senior policy adviser at The Children's Society. She also served as a Labour councillor for the Hammersmith Broadway ward on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council.

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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