The shadow levelling-up secretary is eager to see the north get a helping hand, but stresses that this will require a shift in Westminster’s mindset
It is less than a week since Lisa Nandy was reshuffled but she is already crystal clear about the importance of her new job. “It is the battleground on which the next general election will be fought,” she says. “It is also the battle for the future of the country.”
Last Monday, Nandy, the MP for Wigan, who had started the day as shadow foreign secretary, took a call from Keir Starmer. “He rang and said, ‘You have been doing a fantastic job but we need you out facing the country, telling the story of the country that we can be’,” she tells the Observer.
