Posing for a racy photostrip story . . . yes, that really IS Lisa Nandy the wannabe PM
LISA NANDY, the ‘dark horse’ Labour leadership contender, once offered sex advice to students – and starred in a photo casebook showing her naked in bed with another woman.
Ms Nandy – whose prospects have surged since her composed performance during last week’s BBC interview with Andrew Neil – appeared in a comic bookstyle photostrip recording her quest to find a boyfriend in Newcastle University’s Courier student newspaper.
The Wigan MP’s racy past came to light as fellow leadership candidate Jess Phillips, 38, was revealed as a co-author of a ‘hot or not’ column in her Leeds student newspaper in which she praised pop star Kylie Minogue’s bottom and complained that energy drinks ruined the taste of vodka.
Ms Nandy, 40, was a politics undergraduate at Newcastle two decades ago. Described in her column’s masthead as an agony aunt ‘who likes a bit of hot mail’ she is shown in the photostrip saying: ‘I’ll never find a man!’
When a friend suggests a suitable partner, Ms Nandy is pictured with the prospective date with her hands pressed to her head in exasperation.
A thought bubble reads: ‘Oh, my God! I’m not f***ing s****ing THAT!’
Later, as she is chatted up by another student who offers her a drink, Ms Nandy says: ‘I’d love a stiff one! Actually, d’ya wanna come back to my place?’ After apparently having sex with him, the MP is pictured discussing the incident with a friend.
Using her fingers to illustrate her point, she complains: ‘His w***y was the smallest I’ve ever seen! I’m going back on the pull.’
Later, after the intervention of a ‘Fairy Godfather’, Ms Nandy is pictured naked with her arms wrapped around a blonde woman, saying: ‘Ooh, I thought you only had your ears pierced!!!’
Next to the photostrip she writes: In another column she writes: ‘As I’ve said many times over the course of this year, there are just no fit men at this university … There’s a lot of diversity in a university – virgins, slimy b******s who offer to buy you a drink but have no intention of doing any such thing, geeks, the lot. The trick is how to spot them. You can usually identify a virgin from a thousand paces, cos they’ll be trendy dressers and well into dance music. The only solution is to quit the manhunt and wait till after uni when you’re back amongst normal people.’
In another photo casebook, a male student is pictured smoking a spliff to ‘calm his essay crisis’, then gets a first for his work. Ms Nandy writes: ‘Before the antidrugs lobby gets straight on my case, I am not about to advocate getting caned before a deadline.’
In another column, a third-year student asks how to chat up firstyear students. Ms Nandy replies: ‘You could try pulling in the Union when Red Bull and vodka is on special – it works for me.’
Ms Phillips, who last week faced questions about her postgraduate qualifications, was joint author of a Leeds Student column rating various trends and personalities.
Written under her maiden name
‘An agony aunt who likes a bit of hot mail’
of Jessica Trainor, one column says of Ms Minogue’s bottom: ‘Hot or not depending which sex you are. Great for you lads, bad for us girls – we’re praying it’s implants or we may lose the will to live.’ In another entry the Birmingham Yardley MP writes of energy drink Red Bull: ‘Necking straight vodka by the can load would be better. It doesn’t so much “give you wings” but instead insomnia and insanity. You sooo want to forget the evening of drunken disaster but instead you are forced to relive it in painful solitude in place of sleep.’
Ms Nandy and Ms Phillips are two of the five leadership contenders alongside Emily Thornberry, 59, Sir Keir Starmer, 57, and Rebecca Long Bailey, 40, whose student years appear to have been far less racy. Ms
Thornberry featured prominently in Kent University’s InCant newspaper as a staunch member of the Labour club during the early 1980s. The Shadow Foreign Secretary is described as ‘one of the most popular politicians on campus’ but quit her role with the students’ union, citing academic pressure and saying: ‘I could continue to be vice-president if I lied my way through it, but I can’t.’
Sir Keir, meanwhile, read law at Leeds University where his only reference in Leeds Student was a personal advert hailing him as ‘Keir Starmer – king of middle class radicals.’