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Profile of Lisa Nandy, Shadow Foreign Secretary, and the Labour MP for Wigan.

Lisa Nandy  The Shadow Foreign secretary will represent Labour on the BBC Question Time panel on tonight’s show. The MP for Wigan has been in office since 2010 and has followed most Labour MPs in the majority of her voting record. She previously ran for Labour leader finishing third in the contest. Nandy was in the headlines this week as one of the rumoured sackings as part of the Labour reshuffle with Nandy keeping her shadow foreign role. She ranted about Labour’s loss of the so-call...

Labours pledge for Veterans Centre in Hartlepool if by-election is won Veterans have voice concerned over the "inadequate support" for armed services personnel Updated The Labour candidate in the Hartlepool by-election, Paul Williams, alongside shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy and shadow Defence Secretary John Healey at the Heugh Battery museum on the Headland Get the latest Hartlepool news direct to your inbox with our free email newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again...

5 Apr 2021 at 17:12 I was and am proud to call Cheryl Gillan a friend. I was so sad to learn this afternoon that she had died. She had been in poor health for some time and had been devastated by the death of her beloved husband Jack Leeming at the age of 91 in 2019. She was absolutely devoted to him and cared for him lovingly in his latter years. They were a real team. He might have been older than her but they were so well matched. I first met Cheryl in the mid 1980s when she interviewed me ...

Who is on BBC Question Time tonight? BBC Question Time returns once again tonight in what has been a week of high drama in UK politics. It was announced this week that furlough has been extended as Rishi Sunak revealed the latest budget and the UK continued to battle the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.  BBC One will once again show the corporations flagship political show with Fiona Bruce once again hosting the political show amid a week that is not short of political discussion points. We ...

UK minister who saluted Uganda’s election had local business interests February 3, 2021 Emmanuel Katongole Britain’s minister for Africa, who endorsed disputed election results in Uganda, worked until recently for a company in which one of the country’s richest businessmen and an ally of its president plays a leading role, Declassified UK has found. The revelation comes after the UK’s Foreign Office whitewashed the reelection of Uganda’s P...

DOMINIC Raab has called on Russia to immediately release Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, expressing alarm at the swift…