Lisa Nandy

Lisa Eva Nandy[2]  (born 9 August 1979)[3]  is a British Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Wigan constituency, inGreater Manchester, since the 2010 general election[4]  and is one of six Asian female MPs in the country.[5] [6]



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[hide]  *1 Early career  ==Early career[ edit] == Nandy was born in Manchester, Greater Manchester to Luise Nandy (née Byers) and her then husband Dipak.[7] [8]  Luise Byers' father, Lord Byers, was aLiberal Party MP and held many offices in the party.[9]  Nandy grew up both in Manchester and in Bury, Greater Manchester, where her family later moved to. She graduated from Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, in 2001 with a degree in politics and obtained a master's degree in public policy from Birkbeck, University of London. She has worked in the voluntary sector, as a researcher at the homelessness charity Centrepoint from 2003 to 2005, and then as senior policy adviser at The Children's Society from 2005,[1] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RMJ_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  where she specialised in issues facing young refugees, also acting as adviser to the Children's Commissioner for England and to the Independent Asylum Commission.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11] ==Political career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Nandy served as a Labour councillor in the Shepherds Bush Green ward, Hammersmith and Fulham, from 4 May 2006 to 10 May 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LBHF_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  She was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TN_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  Elected to Parliament on 7 May 2010, she became the constituency's first female MP<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WToday_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  and one of the first six Asian female MPs elected to Parliament.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBCAsianNetwork_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Desi_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  She was appointed to the Education Select Committee on 12 July 2010<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  and was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet Minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, in October 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  In 2012, she was made shadow junior education minister after the reshuffle triggered by the resignation of Peter Hain.
 * 2 Political career
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