17 Facts About Lia Nici

Lia Nici-Townend was born on 1 August 1969 and is a British Conservative Party politician.

Lia Nici was Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby since the 2019 general election before losing her seat in 2024.

Lia Nici served as an Assistant Government Whip in the Truss government from September to October 2022.

Lia Nici's mother was a policewoman in the Grimsby area and later a social worker.

Lia Nici took an art foundation course at Grimsby College, later taking an HND in Audio Visual Studies at Northbrook College in Worthing, East Sussex from 1989 to 1991.

Lia Nici was head of East Coast Media at the institute from 2004.

Lia Nici was the executive producer of Estuary TV, a Grimsby-based community interest company, from 2013 until the company was dissolved.

Lia Nici has listed herself as having been self-employed since September 2018.

Lia Nici voted for the UK to remain in the EU in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.

Lia Nici subsequently became a supporter of leaving the EU and supported her party's approach to the exit process.

In May 2018, Lia Nici was elected as a councillor for the Scartho ward of North East Lincolnshire Council.

In March 2020, Lia Nici became a member of the Backbench Business Committee in the House of Commons.

In May 2020, Lia Nici supported Prime Minister Boris Johnson's refusal to take action against his chief adviser Dominic Cummings after the latter breached COVID-19 lockdown regulations, maintaining only that it was possible "he may have committed a minor breach", and should have apologised.

In October 2020, Nici was appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, making her part of the payroll vote.

Later that month after being absent from voting on a Labour motion calling for the extension of free school meals into the school holidays, Lia Nici said that she would have voted against the government had she been present.

In December 2021, amid the Westminster lockdown parties controversy, Lia Nici maintained that Johnson's moral authority had not been lost, and expressed her displeasure with whistleblowers who had brought attention to the matter, declaring that they "should be ashamed".

On 19 June 2023, Lia Nici abstained in the Commons vote to approve the Privileges Committee's report, which had found that Boris Johnson misled the House.