The appointment of a new State Secretary for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was required following the loss of shadow secretary Thangam Debbonaire’s Bristol West constituency to the Green Party.
Nandy succeeds former Conservative MP Lucy Frazer as DCMS state secretary, who was among the 250 Tory ministers to lose their constituencies.
MP for Wigan since 2010, Nandy is recognized as one of the Labour Party’s longest-serving ministers, who served under the premiership of PM Gordon Brown as an undersecretary of the Cabinet Office.
During Labour’s 14 years in opposition, Nandy took on several shadow minister roles, including Foreign Affairs, Energy Policy and Climate Change, and most recently Levelling-up minister shadowing Michael Gove.
In 2016, Nandy rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party,..
