The Baroness Smith of Basildon | |||||||||||||||
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Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||
Preceded by | The Lord True | ||||||||||||||
Leader of the Opposition in the Lords | |||||||||||||||
In office 27 May 2015 – 4 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||
Party Leader | Harriet Harman (acting) Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||
Preceded by | The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | ||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The Lord True | ||||||||||||||
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |||||||||||||||
In office 28 June 2007 – 8 June 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Keith Hill | ||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Anne Snelgrove | ||||||||||||||
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 8 July 2010 | |||||||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Basildon | |||||||||||||||
In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 | |||||||||||||||
Preceded by | David Amess | ||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Stephen Metcalfe[a] | ||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||
Born | Angela Evans 7 January 1959 London, England | ||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour Co-op | ||||||||||||||
Spouse | Nigel Smith | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Leicester Polytechnic (BA) | ||||||||||||||
Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon PC (born 7 January 1959) is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024.[1] A member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
Smith served in government as an Assistant Whip from 2001 to 2002 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2002 to 2007. She became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in 2007 and served until her appointment as Minister of State for the Third Sector in 2009.
Smith lost her seat to the Conservatives at the 2010 general election, contesting the reformed 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.
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