Digital, culture, media and sport secretary

Lisa Nandy

British digital, culture, media and sport secretary and Labour member of Parliament for Wigan.

Lisa Nandy is Britain's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. She took that post in July 2026 after serving as culture secretary from July 2024. A Labour politician, she has represented Wigan in the House of Commons since 2010.

She studied politics at Newcastle University and completed a master's degree in public policy at Birkbeck, University of London. Before entering Parliament, she worked at the homelessness charity Centrepoint and as a senior policy adviser at The Children's Society.

Our reporting examines her department's intervention in the proposed Sky takeover of ITV's broadcasting and streaming business, including the safeguards for independent news and the public interests regulators must assess.

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