Who is Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy?

LISA Nandy is bidding to replace Jeremy Corbyn and become the next leader of the Labour party.

Here's what we know about the MP for Wigan who served on the Shadow Cabinet from September 2015 to June 2016 who.

Who is Lisa Nandy?

Lisa Nandy was born in August 1979 in Manchester to mum Luise — the daughter of Liberal Lord Byers — and Marxist academic Dipak Nandy.

She grew up in Bury, Greater Manchester, and studied politics at Newcastle University.

Ms Nandy worked in several charities before taking up a career in politics.

She first served as a Labour councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham before she was selected for the Wigan constituency in the 2010 General Election.

When was she first elected as a Labour MP?

Nandy was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist.

On May 7, 2010, she was elected to Parliament.

She became the constituency's first female MP and one of the first Asian female MPs.

She was appointed to the Education Select Committee in July 2010 and was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell, the shadow Olympics minister, in October 2010.

Two years later she was made shadow children's minister and, in October 2013, she was appointed shadow charities minister.

Why has Lisa Nandy 2001 gay rights article been criticised?

Ms Nandy has come under fire for an "offensive" article on gay rights while at university.

that the leadership candidate once queried the right of gay students to have their own society.

She said that it was “unacceptable” that gay people did not accept straight students into their club while writing as deputy editor of the Newcastle University newspaper in 2001.

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