Lisa Nandy's £3,000 makeover by British designer 'helps showcase something Britain is really good at'
Fashion freebies certainly helped to shape Labour's look during the election campaign last year.
Now, wearing a £2,845 outfit, the Culture Secretary has suggested that the clothing industry is better than politics at 'shaping the country'.
For a magazine photoshoot, Lisa Nandy posed in a £1,295 camel trench coat, a £750 black wool blazer and a £625 silk shirt by British designer Laura Pitharas.
Ms Nandy, 45, told Elle: 'One of the things I've learned about fashion since I got appointed to this job, that I hadn't really understood before, is just how good it is at interpreting and shaping the country and the world we live in.
'It defines what comes next... I find it really curious how good fashion is at that and how bad politics is.'
Pointing to her outfit, she added: 'I think the great thing for me when I wear something like this, it's not just that these are incredibly beautiful clothes, it's that I'm helping showcase something that Britain is really good at.
For a magazine photoshoot, Lisa Nandy posed in a £1,295 camel trench coat, a £750 black wool blazer and a £625 silk shirt by British designer Laura Pitharas
In October, Ms Nandy got into hot water after it was discovered she got a 'loan of clothing' from a luxury fashion brand, a day before saying she had never accepted free clothing from donors
'There's not much you can say about what I wear nowadays that isn't water off a duck's back.'
In October, Ms Nandy got into hot water after it was discovered she got a 'loan of clothing' from a luxury fashion brand, a day before saying she had never accepted free clothing from donors.
She also appeared on TV to defend Sir Keir Starmer after he accepted more than £20,000 worth of clothes and glasses from Labour peer Lord Alli.
A spokesman for Elle said no freebies were given to Ms Nandy as everything she wore on the shoot was either 'her own or borrowed and returned'.
