Lisa Nandy: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|British politician (born 1979)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lisa Nandy

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| term_start7 = 6 May 2010

| predecessor7 = [[Neil Turner (British politician)|Neil Turner]]

| successor7 =

| birth_name = Lisa Eva Nandy

| birth_place = [[Manchester]], England

| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]

| father = [[Dipak Nandy]]

| children = 1

| signature = Lisa Nandy signature.png

}}

 

 

After a further four years as a backbench MP, Nandy stood as a candidate in the [[2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|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 [[November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle|reshuffle in November 2021]], Nandy was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

 

 

 

 

== Parliamentary career ==

 

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Committee&nbsp;– membership |url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/membership/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702075629/http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/membership/ |archive-date=2 July 2013 |access-date=10 February 2011 |website=UK Parliament Website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=13 October 2010 |title=Wigan MP Lisa Nandy Promoted to Olympic Role in Labour's Shadow Team |url=http://www.lisanandy.co.uk/news/wigan-mp-lisa-nandy-promoted-to-olympic-role-in-labours-shadow-team/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129181038/http://www.lisanandy.co.uk/news/wigan-mp-lisa-nandy-promoted-to-olympic-role-in-labours-shadow-team/ |archive-date=29 November 2010 |access-date=10 February 2011 |website=Lisa Nandy: Labour MP for Wigan |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2012, she succeeded [[Catherine McKinnell]] as [[Official Opposition frontbench#Social services|Shadow Children and Young Families Minister]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media |url=https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-session_abd21b35-4adf-4f3b-94cb-af7f3a6abf92 |access-date=13 January 2021 |website=consent.yahoo.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 July 2012 |title=Shadow Minister for Children & Young Families Backs Call for Action on Child Protection |url=http://www.lisanandy.co.uk/news/shadow-minister-for-children-young-families-backs-call-for-action-on-child-protection/ |access-date=13 January 2021 |website=Lisa Nandy MP}}</ref> In October 2013, she was appointed shadow charities minister.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ainsworth |first=David |date=9 October 2013 |title=Lisa Nandy is appointed shadow charities minister in Labour reshuffle |url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/lisa-nandy-appointed-shadow-charities-minister-labour-reshuffle/policy-and-politics/article/1215667 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402205228/http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/lisa-nandy-appointed-shadow-charities-minister-labour-reshuffle/policy-and-politics/article/1215667 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |access-date=28 March 2015 |publisher=Third Sector}}</ref>

 

 

 

[[File:Lisa Nandy, 2016 Labour Party Conference (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Nandy at the 2016 [[Labour Party Conference]]]]

 

 

In 2018, Nandy set up the Centre for Towns, with data analytics expert Ian Warren. The Centre for Towns billed itself as an "independent non-partisan organisation dedicated to providing research and analysis of our towns".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maguire |first=Patrick |date=6 September 2019 |title=It's the towns, stupid: How Labour plans to win the next election |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/09/it-s-towns-stupid-how-labour-plans-win-next-election |access-date=15 December 2019 |website=New Statesman}}</ref> At the end of 2018 Nandy became the chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 December 2018 |title=Lisa Nandy: My plans as the new chair of Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East |url=https://labourlist.org/2018/12/lisa-nandy-my-plans-as-the-new-chair-of-labour-friends-of-palestine-the-middle-east/ |access-date=14 February 2020 |website=LabourList}}</ref>

 

 

On 4 September 2023 she was appointed Shadow International Development minister by Keir Starmer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 September 2023 |title=Angela Rayner handed new role as Keir Starmer reshuffles top team |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66707569 |access-date=11 September 2023 |work=BBC News}}</ref>

 

=== 2020 leadership election ===

{{Main|2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)}}

 

On 16 January 2020, during the Labour leadership election, Nandy said that demands for Scottish independence could be overcome with a "social justice agenda", saying that there were times in the past when that had quelled nationalist movements in [[Catalonia]] and [[Quebec]]. She was criticised by several [[Scottish National Party]] politicians, who pointed to police violence and the jailing of politicians during the [[2017 Catalan independence referendum]] to refute her point. In a blog post, Nandy said that police violence in Catalonia was unjustified, and that socialists opposed to separatism "may yet win out".<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 January 2020 |title=Scottish independence: Labour candidate Lisa Nandy criticised for Catalonia remarks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51139519 |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Laura |date=16 January 2020 |title=Lisa Nandy under fire for Catalonia claim in Andrew Neil interview |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/18163783.lisa-nandy-fire-catalonia-claim-andrew-neil-interview/ |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=The National}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=16 January 2020 |title=Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy suggests Scotland should 'look to Catalonia' to deal with independence |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18165536.labour-leadership-hopeful-lisa-nandy-suggests-scotland-look-catalonia-deal-independence/ |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=The Herald}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Chaplain |first=Chloe |date=16 January 2020 |title=Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy called 'clueless' for citing Spain's crack-down in Catalonia as a good way of defeating nationalism |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/lisa-nandy-interview-andrew-neil-spain-catalan-snp-1366848 |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=i}}</ref>

 

=== Shadow Levelling Up Secretary ===

 

=== Shadow International Development Cabinet Minister ===

 

 

 

 

Nandy supports "ethical [[Foreign interventionism|interventionism]]" and states that although she supports working towards peace, she is "not a pacifist". She has also cited [[Robin Cook]]'s speech in 1997 on "ethical foreign policy" as an influence on her beliefs, and [[British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War|the UK intervention in Sierra Leone in 2000]] as an example of ethical interventionism. She voted against UK airstrikes in Syria in 2015, opposed [[UK arms export]]s to [[Saudi Arabia]], the [[assassination of Qasem Soleimani]] and the [[Iraq War]].<ref name="Pickard and Bounds 2020">{{Cite web |last1=Pickard |first1=Jim |last2=Bounds |first2=Andy |date=17 January 2020 |title=Lisa Nandy, leadership long-shot on the road from Wigan |url=https://www.ft.com/content/be721650-3907-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4 |access-date=23 May 2020 |website=Financial Times}}</ref><ref name="Rea 2020"/>

 

 

In 2019, the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] ruled that the United Kingdom must transfer the [[Chagos Archipelago]] to [[Mauritius]] as they were [[Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute|not legally separated]] from the latter in 1965.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 June 2020 |title=Foreign Office quietly rejects International Court ruling to hand back Chagos Islands |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/foreign-office-quietly-rejects-international-court-ruling-to-hand-back-chagos-islands-450078 |work=i}}</ref> Nandy, in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary [[Dominic Raab]] said the UK position "is damaging to Britain's reputation, undermines your credibility and moral authority and sets a damaging precedent that others may seize upon to undermine UK national interests, and those of our allies, in other contexts or maritime disputes".<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 February 2021 |title=UK's 'colonial' stance over Chagos Islands could derail court bid |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/uks-colonial-stance-over-chagos-islands-could-derail-court-bid |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

 

 

* {{Cite journal |last=Nandy |first=Lisa |date=2005 |title=The impact of government policy on asylum-seeking and refugee children |journal=[[Children & Society]] |publisher=Wiley |volume=19 |issue=5 |pages=410–413 |doi=10.1002/chi.896 |issn=0951-0605}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Nandy |first=Lisa |date=2012 |title=What would a socially just education system look like? |journal=[[Journal of Education Policy]] |publisher=Taylor & Francis |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=677–680 |doi=10.1080/02680939.2012.710021 |issn=0268-0939 |s2cid=145376654}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Nandy |first=Lisa |date=2019 |title=Bridging the Brexit divide |journal=[[IPPR Progressive Review]] |publisher=Wiley |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=238–242 |doi=10.1111/newe.12168 |issn=2573-2323 |s2cid=213834448}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Nandy |first=Lisa |date=8 January 2020 |title=Back to the Future: The Pulling Apart of our Towns and Cities |journal=[[The Political Quarterly]] |publisher=Wiley |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=324–333 |doi=10.1111/1467-923x.12792 |issn=0032-3179 |s2cid=213842724}}

 

==Notes==

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{{S-bef|before=[[Neil Turner (British politician)|Neil Turner]]}}

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{{S-bef|before=[[Catherine McKinnell]]}}

{{S-ttl|title=[[Official Opposition frontbench#Social services|Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families]]|years=2012–2013}}

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{{S-ttl|title=[[Shadow Minister for Civil Society]]|years=2013–2015}}

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{{S-aft|after=[[David Lammy]]|as=[[Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs]]}}

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{{S-ttl|title=[[Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities]]|years=2021–2023}}

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{{S-bef|before=[[Preet Gill]]}}

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