Lisa Nandy

Five years ago as a newly elected MP arriving in London I remember being fairly stumped by the first question I was asked by a journalist. The interview was about the economy, and it opened with “what’s it like being a woman in Parliament?”…

Reducing the cost of government has been a mantra from the Coalition. Before the last election Cameron lambasted Labour for being "shockingly casual about public money and how it’s spent” and said "we will expect to be judged on a clear…

Five years ago David Cameron said he wouldn’t balance the books on the backs of the poor. What a joke that now seems. By the end of this Parliament, on any measure you choose, at least half a million more children will have been pushed into…

Today we've published a collection of essays from Labour PPCs called "Our Labour Our Communities". They were curated and edited by Lisa Nandy MP, who also wrote the introduction to the series - which we've published here: As we approach the…

My favourite story from the Better Together campaign is one I heard about Jim Murphy a few weeks ago. He was in a pub, talking to voters, and came across a group of women on a hen-do, L plates and condoms round their necks and empty shot…

Energetic. Ambitious. Optimistic. Passionate. Working with young people for nearly a decade taught me they’re the most likely of all age groups to challenge, ask hard question and tell it as it is. But young people are also the least likely…

We all know that it is far easier to stand up to the weak than the strong. as Ed Miliband said when he made a personal, honest speech about leadership a few weeks ago. It was telling that he chose to open that speech by talking about Gaza…

The Big Society has long seemed like a joke to many communities across Britain, but now it has become a sham. In the last few days, thanks to the tenacity of my predecessor Gareth Thomas, we’ve learnt millions of pounds of public money were…