UK cabinet reshuffle: 3 Indian-origin Labour MPs get front-bench roles under Burnham
Lisa Nandy has been appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport @dcms. pic.twitter.com/NeWPUFiALc— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 20, 2026 Not everyone moved up, though. Seema Malhotra, who had been Indo-Pacific minister, and Preet Kaur Gill, formerly a junior health minister, have both returned to the backbenches. Both were known as close allies of former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.
- ▪Lisa Nandy has been appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport @dcms. pic.twitter.com/NeWPUFiALc— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 20, 2026 Not everyone moved up, though.
- ▪Seema Malhotra, who had been Indo-Pacific minister, and Preet Kaur Gill, formerly a junior health minister, have both returned to the backbenches.
- ▪Both were known as close allies of former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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Lisa Nandy has been appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport @dcms. pic.twitter.com/NeWPUFiALc— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 20, 2026 Not everyone moved up, though. Seema Malhotra, who had been Indo-Pacific minister, and Preet Kaur Gill, formerly a junior health minister, have both returned to the backbenches. Both were known as close allies of former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. Meanwhile, Lisa Nandy whose father was born in Kolkata stays on in the cabinet as Culture Secretary. Who is Kanishka Narayan? Narayan grew up in Muzaffarpur, in India’s Bihar state, before his family moved to Wales when he was 12. He went on to study at Eton College, Oxford University and Stanford, well before he entered British politics.
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