Lisa Nandy fails to take Starmer’s reshuffle hint
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ByLisa Nandy
The new radical? What to expect from the shadow levelling-up secretary
Angela Rayner now presides over a sprawling policy remit – and the opposition’s most far-reaching reforms.
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Keir Starmer’s reshuffle was politically ruthless
The Labour leader has marginalised the soft left and promoted proud Blairites.
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Lisa Nandy’s housing plan is radical and – most importantly – cheap
The shadow housing and levelling-up secretary is showing voters how Labour can change things without spending big.
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Bev Craig: “For the vast majority, the economy simply isn’t good enough”
The council leader on the “Manchester Model” and Labour’s national missions.
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How Brexit Britain lost a vital asset: space
So-called left behind towns prize more “places to meet” over jobs. In Middlesbrough, they’re opening public living rooms in abandoned…
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Where next for levelling up?
Conservatives are fuming over “begging bowl” culture, while Labour waits in the wings with its own version of the plan.
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Lisa Nandy: “While rentier capitalism has been allowed to run riot, a quiet patriotism has been at work in every community”
The text of the shadow levelling up secretary's Orwell Memorial Lecture.
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Keir Starmer’s U-turn on picket lines shows Lisa Nandy’s strength
By visiting striking workers, the shadow levelling-up secretary has proved herself an astute political operator.
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Lisa Nandy: “I disliked the cults around Blair and Corbyn: one man doesn’t change things”
On the road in Wigan, the shadow minister talks levelling up, the Tory leadership – and how Labour can define…
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Commons Confidential: No Drama Starmer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Lisa Nandy interview: “Identity is not a zero-sum game”
The Labour leadership outsider on her heritage, the “overblown culture war”, and how Labour “offended everybody”.
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