page_title: Lisa Nandy
section_title: Parliamentary career
hierarchical_section_title: Lisa Nandy / Parliamentary career
caption_attribution_description: English: Lisa Nandy at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, speaking at the Sustainability Hub Reception organised by the Socialist Environment and Resources Association (SERA).
context_page_description: Lisa Eva Nandy is a British Labour politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2020. She has been Member of Parliament for Wigan since 2010.
  The daughter of a Marxist academic, Nandy was born in Manchester and educated at the comprehensive Parrs Wood High School and Holy Cross College. She studied 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 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 and Shadow Minister for Charities and Civil Society from 2012 to 2015. She served as Shadow Energy Secretary from 2015, until she resigned in 2016 to co-chair Owen Smith's leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn. She 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.
context_section_description: Nandy was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist. Elected to parliament on 7 May 2010, she became the constituency's first female MP and one of the first Asian female MPs.
  She was appointed to the Education Select Committee in July 2010 and was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell, the Shadow Olympics Minister, in October 2010. In 2012, she was made shadow children's minister. In October 2013, she was appointed shadow charities minister.
  Following Labour's general election defeat in May 2015 and Ed Miliband's subsequent resignation as party leader, there was some speculation in the media that Nandy would stand in the leadership election. Nandy declined and endorsed Andy Burnham. In August 2015, Owen Jones said that he encouraged Nandy to run for the leadership, but the recent birth of her son prevented it. Nandy was also mentioned in the Guardian and the Telegraph as someone from the left wing of the party who could replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader before the 2017 general election, and after the 2019 general election in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.
  In September 2015, it was announced that Nandy had been appointed to serve as Shadow Energy Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet. Along with many colleagues, she resigned from her post in June 2016. In the wake of the these resignations, Nandy was approached by Labour MPs who wanted her to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in a leadership election. MPs felt that Nandy and eventual candidate Owen Smith were soft Left politicians who could win the leadership. Nandy declined to stand and instead served as co-chair of Smith's campaign team.
  After the election resulted in Corbyn's re-election, Nandy announced that she did not intend to return to the frontbench without the re-introduction of Shadow Cabinet elections, which had been abolished by Ed Miliband in 2011 (the last election being held in 2010). She also spoke of the abuse she had received for not supporting Corbyn, which she described as leaving her "genuinely frightened". She compared her treatment to that which she had received at the hands of the far-right when she first campaigned to become MP for Wigan in 2010.
  In 2018, Nandy set up the Centre for Towns, with data analytics expert Ian Warren. The Centre for Towns bills itself as an "independent non-partisan organisation dedicated to providing research and analysis of our towns". At the end of 2018 Nandy became the chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.
caption: Nandy at the 2016 Labour Party Conference
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