Nandy changes her tune on the culture wars

Labour won the election on a campaign of change and its politicians certainly have a knack for, um, changing their minds. Sir Keir has made some fascinating U-turns over the years, and it now appears that Lisa Nandy has a taken a leaf out of his book – rather publicly changing her tune on the culture wars.

‘The era of culture wars is over,’ Nandy proclaimed in her first speech as Culture Secretary earlier this month. ‘For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives. This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives.’ Wise words – but has the Culture Secretary heeded them herself?

Apparently not. It transpires that Nandy has, er, rather forcefully waded into the very same ‘culture wars’ she denounced only a fortnight ago. The last Conservative government supported a complete ban on trans people taking party in elite women’s sporting events – but Labour’s new Culture Secretary disagrees.