Her father is Dipak Nandy, a Kolkata-born academic who lives in the UK and helped draft Labour’s 1976 race relations bill. Her mother is Ann Luise Byers, daughter of the late life peer Lord Byers.

As the daughter of esteemed British-Indian academic Dipak Nandy, her heritage made her one of the few British-Asian female MPs upon election. She is a mother-of-one and is married to Andy Collis ...

So, what do we know about her? Ms Nandy was born in 1979 in Manchester to Louise and Dipak Nandy. Politics runs in the family - her grandfather was the Liberal MP for North Dorset in the 1940s ...

The road back to power is steep but it does not have to be long," Nandy, the daughter of India-born academic Dipak Nandy and a British mother, had said at the end of the contest. AK NSA ...