The 100-Year Life Health Education and Government
While Labour was in opposition, Lisa Nandy appeared to be on an uninterrupted downward trajectory. Having started out in Keir Starmer’s top team as shadow foreign secretary, she was successively demoted until being handed the junior ministerial brief for international development. Now her party is in government, things are looking up for the Wigan MP who was once a party leadership contender. In his first round of appointments Starmer has today made Nandy culture secretary, responsible for a sprawling portfolio of arts, media and sport. The role was made vacant after Thangam Debbonaire, who had held the shadow position, lost her Bristol Central seat to Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer.
