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Lisa Nandy Named New U.K. Culture Minister
The U.K.'s new Labour government has named the new secretary of state for culture, media and sport.
Nandy was appointed as part of the new cabinet by Keir Starmer, the new U.K. prime minister following the Labour Party’s history landslide election win on July 4, where it won 412 seats and ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Another to lose their seat was Labour’s shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Thangam Debbonaire, who had been expected to assume the role in government but lost heavily to her local Green Party rival. Nandy now enters office during a period on uncertainty for the U.K.’s screen sector, fuelled by the post-pandemic hangover and Hollywood’s writer and actor strikes, plus reduced budgets, a downturn in the TV ad market and a pullback in spend by the streamers that have several impacted the workforce.
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