PIO MP Lisa Nandy is Labour Party's new shadow foreign secy

Keir Starmer wasted little time in laying out early battle lines as he seeks to return his UK opposition Labour Party to power, criticising Boris Johnson's Conservatives over austerity and the damage done to the National Health Service.
Starmer, who was elected Labour leader on Saturday, named his top team of shadow cabinet ministers on Sunday. Anneliese Dodds became the first woman to be shadow chancellor of the exchequer, and Indian-origin MP Lisa Nandy, who stood against Starmer for the leadership, was appointed shadow foreign secretary.
On her appointment, Nandy, who has been MP for Wigan since 2010, thanked Keir for the "opportunity to serve". She said: "It's a real honour to be tasked with leading Labour's foreign policy response in these difficult times." Nandy, 40, is the daughter of Indian academic Dipak Nandy. Her mother is British. Her father was born in Kolkata and came to Britain in the 1950s to study at the University of Leeds. Dipak Nandy was the first director of the Runnymede Trust think tank on race and helped draft Britain's Race Relations Bill of 1976.
Starmer's top team will form a new shadow committee, which will be responsible for coordinating Labour's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Starmer said: "We are living through a national emergency. Under my leadership, the Labour Party will always act in the country's interest to save lives and protect livelihoods. That will be the number one priority of my shadow cabinet."