Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shadow Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 16 May 2012 – 28 May 2015 Served with The Lord Tunnicliffe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party Leader | Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | The Lord Tunnicliffe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | The Lord McAvoy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Angela Evans 7 January 1959 Leicester Polytechnic (BA ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon Labour and Co-operative parties, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
Smith served in government as an Assistant
South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency. She was appointed to the House of Lords shortly after her defeat, where she became Shadow Deputy Chief Whip
in 2012 and Shadow Leader in 2015.
Early life
Smith attended Pitsea Junior School and Chalvedon Comprehensive (later
Leicester Polytechnic, where she graduated as BA. In 1978, she married Nigel Smith, who has written a number of history books for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
.
From 1982 to 1983, Smith was a trainee accountant with the
political researcher
from 1995 to 1997.
Smith was a member of Essex County Council from 1989 and a member of the Fire Authority for the County of Essex.[2]
Parliamentary career
House of Commons
Having previously contested
Southend West in the 1987 General Election, Smith was selected to stand for election for Labour in Basildon nearly a decade later in December 1995 through an all-women shortlist.[3] She was elected for Basildon at the 1997 general election, replacing the Conservative MP David Amess
, who had moved to contest the nearby safer seat of Southend West, which Smith previously fought herself, when Basildon's boundaries were slightly redrawn, aware that his small majority was almost certainly going to be overturned by Labour. She was re-elected comfortably in 2001 and 2005.
In December 1997, Smith introduced the
Private Member's Bill to minimise waste generation, and was successful in negotiating its passage through Parliament to become the Waste Minimisation Act 1998.[4]
Smith was appointed a
Fire Services
.
On 28 June 2007, Smith was appointed as a
Privy Council.[6]
The old Basildon seat was abolished in the
Lordships' House and not in the other place”.[7]
Expenses
In June 2009 Smith had to repay over £1,000 for wrongly claimed
Sir Thomas Legg uncovered further monies over-claimed by Baroness Smith making a total of £1,429 which she later returned.[8]
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Smith was created a
2010 Dissolution Honours List. She was introduced into the House of Lords the next day.[10]
In the Lords, Smith was Labour Spokeswoman for
Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2013, Northern Ireland from 2011 to 2012 and the Home Office from 2012 to 2015. She also served as Opposition Deputy Whip in the House of Lords from 2012 to 2015. On 27 May 2015, Smith was elected unopposed as Labour's Leader in the Lords, and so joined Harriet Harman's Shadow Cabinet.[11]
In June 2016, Smith and Lords chief whip
Lord Bassam of Brighton stated they would boycott shadow cabinet meetings while Jeremy Corbyn remained leader of the Labour Party, but returned to attending shadow cabinet four months later.[12][13]
In September 2017, she was named at Number 71 in 'The 100 Most Influential People on the Left' by commentator Iain Dale.[14]
Political positions
An active supporter of animal welfare, Smith is a patron of Freedom for Animals, a charity campaigning for an end to the use of animals in circuses, zoos and the exotic pet trade.[15]
References
- ^ House of Lords Business — 8 July 2010 UK Parliament
- ^ New Fire Minister in Basildon Essex Fire and Rescue Service; Accessed 9 October 2006 Archived 1 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Seats with Labour candidates from all-female shortlists". The Independent. 9 January 1996. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ Waste Minimisation Act 1998 National Archives
- ^ Angela Evans Smith is new Third Sector Minister Third Sector, 8 June 2009
- ^ "Angela Smith". Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Monday 17 January 2011: 17 Jan 2011: House of Lords debates". TheyWorkForYou.
- ^ Angela Smith overclaimed nearly £1,500 of expenses Third Sector, 5 February 2010
- ^ "No. 59485". The London Gazette. 12 July 2010. p. 13181.
- ^ Lords Debates 7 July 2010, c 333 UK Parliament
- ^ "Baroness Smith of Basildon". Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Who's staying and who's going in the shadow cabinet?". BBC News. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ Edwards, Peter (11 October 2016). "Peers return to shadow Cabinet four months after summer rebellion". LabourList. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ Dale, Iain (25 September 2017). "The 100 Most Influential People On The Left: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Angela Smith - Baroness Smith of Basildon". www.freedomforanimals.org.uk. Manchester: The Captive Animals' Protection Society (working as Freedom for Animals). 21 February 2018. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
External links
- Angela Smith: Electoral history and profile The Guardian
- Angela Smith MP TheyWorkForYou.com
- Voting Record – Angela Smith MP The Public Whip
