Lisa Nandy has emerged as a potential contender to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader when he steps down in March.
The MP for Wigan appeared to throw her hat into the ring during an interview with the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday when she said she was "seriously thinking" about running for the leadership.
On Friday Mr Corbyn announced he would stand down as Labour leader after he oversaw the party's worst election results since 1935, but over the weekend it emerged he could stay on until the end of March.
A number of names have now emerged as contenders to replace Mr Corbyn. With the race in full swing, we take a look at Lisa Nandy.
Who is Lisa Nandy?
The veteran Labour politician has been representing Wigan since 2010. Before that, she was a Labour councillor for Hammersmith Broadway from 2006-2010 where she served as a shadow cabinet member for housing.
Born in Manchester in 1979, her grandfather was Liberal MP Frank Byers and her father is the Marxist and academic Dipak Nandy. Before entering Parliament, she also worked as a researcher and caseworker for Labour MP Neil Gerard.
With a reputation as a constituency campaigner, Ms Nandy set up the Centre for Towns thinktank last year and has called for the party's decision-making structures to move out of the capital in order to the party to regain the trust of voters outside London.
"Our Labour headquarters, in my view, should move out of London, our regional offices should be empowered to take real decisions, we should move our party conferences back to towns as well as cities," she said.
Ms Nandy said it is "undoubtedly true" that Mr Corbyn is to blame for the devastating defeat, but said it was not a rejection of the ideas in the Labour manifesto.
Considered to be a soft-left MP, Ms Nandy was one of a handful of shadow minister who resigned from Mr Corbyns's frontbench after the Brexit referendum and his leadership, and has in the past revealed the abuse she has received for not supporting the outgoing leader.
A former shadow energy secretary, Ms Nandy voted Remain in 2016 but has argued against a second referendum and revealed that she voted in favour of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal in October.
Those expected to enter the leadership race include Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Emily Thornberry and Rebecca Long-Bailey.
