She also has a position among the list of Most popular Politicians. It also includes a description of perhaps my most surprising find: a letter from Dipak Nandy, father of Lisa Nandy, to Enoch Powell praising his contribution to British politics." RT @richardmarcj: Contains eurosceptic quotes from Ernest Bevin, Michael Foot, David Blunkett, Peter Shore, & others. During her 2020 bid for the Labour Leadership. I'm going back on the pull. This is a great space to write long text about your company and your services. Emily Thornberry last night faced calls to 'sack' a key aide in her Labour leadership bid over allegations of bullying. The multi-millionaire Prime Minister, worth an estimated 730m with wife Akshata Murty, announced the cash for his seat in Richmond, North Yorks as he unveiled 111 projects to receive funds from. L-R: Richard Burgon, Angela Rayner, Rosena Allin Khan, Dawn Butler and Ian Murray take part in the first party deputy leadership hustings. In the 2020 Labour leadership election, Nandy secured only 16.2% of the vote, but her well-received campaign soon earned her the coveted Shadow Foreign Secretary brief. University of Kent, 1968 - Great Britain - 16 pages. On 5 April 2020, Nandy was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the new Shadow Cabinet led by Keir Starmer. The Centre for Towns bills itself as an "independent non-partisan organisation dedicated to providing research and analysis of our towns". She voted against UK airstrikes in Syria in 2015, opposed UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Iraq War. [7], In 1960, while a student at Leeds, Nandy met Margaret Gracie, whom he dated until 1964, when they were married in Leeds. In a blog post, Nandy said that police violence in Catalonia was unjustified, and that socialists opposed to separatism may yet win out. Lisa Nandy - latest news, breaking stories and comment - The Independent Lisa Eva Nandy was born in Manchester on 9 August 1979,[1] the daughter of Louise (ne Byers) and Dipak Nandy. UK. Hardened Leftist Rebecca Long Bailey is one of the two front-runners to lead a party that has an estimated 300,000 socialists and Momentum members on its books. In Januaryleadership outsider Clive Lewis called for a referendum about dumping the Royal Family as he defended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Pro-Palestinian, Without the anti-Semitism: Post-Corbyn - Haaretz