EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy talks to the Manchester Evening News about protecting football clubs, breaking down barriers in arts and her trip to Germany to watch England in the...
Lisa Nandy has set out her top priorities in government as the new 'minister of fun'. In her first interview as the Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, the Wigan MP told the Manchester Evening News that she wants to put football fans 'at the centre of the game'.
She also spoke of the importance of her role on the international stage and her pride in watching England win the Euros semi-final in Dortmund this week. But whether a win in the final on Sunday means we get a bank holiday to celebrate, she would not say. A: Well it's been a bit of a whirlwind, to be honest, the last few days. This time last week I was over in Wigan, banging on doors in the rain and now I'm back here at Gigg Lane talking to football fans about how we're going to make sure that we put fans at the centre of the game again. So it's been a pretty amazing week, but really exciting.A: It's amazing, actually. But it also feels like a very heavy responsibility.
"So it's going to be a top priority for us. I don't want to pre-empt the King's Speech, but it was a central part of our manifesto and it will be an essential part of my job to deliver on that and to deliver on it without delay." Q: You've got a big department here, the second headquarters of DCMS is in Manchester. Does that mean you're going to spend more time here as a Secretary of State?
A: First of all, I think, right on our doorstep here, we've got one of the best examples of levelling up that this country has ever seen, before levelling up as a slogan even existed and that's Media City over in Salford. You'll remember as well as I do, the furious row about whether the BBC and other media institutions could possibly move outside of London, but that has been a stunning success. It's been an economic success story.
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