Lisa Nandy
MP
Official Parliamentary Portrait of Lisa Nandy
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office
13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Shadowing Amber Rudd
Preceded by Caroline Flint
Succeeded by Barry Gardiner
Member of Parliament
for Wigan
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Neil Turner
Majority 16,027 (33.7%)
Personal details
Born Lisa Eva Nandy
(1979-08-09) 9 August 1979 (age 44)
Website Official


Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010, and served under Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from September 2015 until June 2016. Preceding this, she had served as the Shadow Minister for Children and then the Shadow Minister for Charities.

Political career

Wigan MP

Nandy served as a Labour councillor for Hammersmith Broadway ward, Hammersmith and Fulham, from 4 May 2006 to 10 May 2010. She was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist. She was elected to parliament on 7 May 2010.

She was appointed to the Education Select Committee on 12 July 2010 and was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet Minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, in October 2010. In 2012, she was made shadow junior education minister after the reshuffle triggered by the resignation of Peter Hain. In October 2013 she was appointed shadow charities minister.

On 14 September 2015, it was announced that Nandy had been appointed to serve as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn. She resigned from her post on 27 June 2016.