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Labour MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy has been appointed as the new shadow energy secretary, after Caroline Flint’s decision to step down from the role.
Newly elected opposition party leader Jeremy Corbyn named his full shadow cabinet on Monday morning following his thumping victory in the contest announced on Saturday, tasking the relatively inexperienced Nandy with the energy brief.
Nandy was elected to parliament in the 2010 general election and was appointed parliamentary private secretary to the shadow cabinet minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, in October of that year. Two years later she was appointed shadow junior education minister and in 2013 she took on the shadow charities minister role.
Although Nandy has not held formal energy responsibilities she joined the parliamentary campaign in support of the ‘End the Big Six Energy Fix’ campaign in May 2012 saying it is “appalling” that energy companies are allowed to rake in profits when “more than 5.5 million households hit by fuel poverty which have resulted in an estimated 3,000 premature winter deaths.”
Nandy replaces Flint who held the position of shadow energy secretary for four years, following Flint’s resignation from the cabinet earlier today.
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