In May 2010 it was announced that Nye would be named a life peer in the Dissolution Honours List.

[citation needed] Nye worked as a civil servant before becoming an employee of the Labour Party.

[citation needed] In The Deal, Nye was portrayed by Joanna Scanlan.

[4] Nye married Gavyn Davies, the former BBC chairman and former Goldman Sachs worker, in Islington, north London, in August 1989.

They live in Wandsworth, having moved there to give their daughter the opportunity to attend a better school.