Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy is the MP for Wigan and Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Born and brought up in Manchester, she worked for the charity Centrepoint and later ran the refugee and asylum programme at The Children's Socity before entering parliament. In her decade as an MP she has held several prominent shadow cabinet roles and co-founded the Centre for Towns. She was third in the last Labour leadership elections.