She tries to sum up the feeling of becoming MP for her hometown of Wigan while the future of the country hangs in the balance: "It feels like nothing and everything is happening all at once."
"Focusing on the constituency is what most people are doing," she claims, like the new girl at school intent on not getting anyone into trouble. "As a new MP the main priority for most is to find a desk."
She secured the traditionally Labour stronghold with a 10,500 majority, albeit with a 7.7 per cent swing to the Conservatives.
Nandy has spent her first few days in Parliament squatting in the office of Tony Lloyd, chair of the parliamentary Labour Party, in her search for permanent residence. But she is still struggling to find her way around. "I managed to find a desk but also managed to lose it this morning," she confesses. "I had to get somebody from the security team to escort me to it."
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