Lisa Nandy

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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...

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