Cat Smith

Cat Smith
MP
Shadow Minister for Women
Assumed office
18 September 2015
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Member of Parliament
for Lancaster and Fleetwood
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded by Eric Ollerenshaw
Majority 1,265 (3%)
Personal details
Born Catherine Jane Smith
(1985-06-16) 16 June 1985
Barrow-in-Furness,Cumbria, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater Lancaster University
Religion Methodism[1]
Website Official website

Catherine Jane "Cat" Smith[2] (born 16 June 1985)[3] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015.[4] In September 2015 she was appointed to the Official Opposition frontbench as a Shadow Minister for Women, serving under Kate Green.[5][6]

Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Smith moved to Lancaster in 2003 where she studied at Cartmel College, Lancaster University,[7] graduating with a BA in Sociology and Gender Studies. Before entering Parliament, she worked for Jeremy Corbyn and as a policy officer for the British Association of Social Workers.[8][9] She unsuccessfully contested Wyre and Preston North in 2010.[9]

Smith has contributed to publications and news blogs associated with the Labour Party, including LabourList and Tribune.[10][11] She identifies herself as a Christian, socialist, feminist, republican and trade unionist.[12] She is one of twenty-seven LGBTI MPs elected at the 2015 general election,[13] identifying as bisexual,[14] and her partner is a man called Ben Soffa.[15] Smith has stated that she believes Jesus was a radical socialist.[16]

Cat Smith was one of the thirty-six Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 and one of the fourteen to support him[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ "Hansard" (PDF). publications.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. 2 January 2016. Lancaster is famous for its nonconformist residents, so as a Methodist I feel I am in good company. I am pleased to be making my maiden speech in the debate on Britain in the world, because it was my faith that led me into politics, through the campaigns to drop third world debt and the campaign for fair trade.
  2. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Lancaster City Council. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Biography for Cat Smith". MyParliament. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lancaster & Fleetwood". BBC News. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Mason, Rowena; Perraudin, Frances (18 September 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn makes shadow ministers of his critics". theguardian.com (The Guardian). Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Duffy, Nick (18 September 2015). "Labour appoints bisexual MP Cat Smith to equalities role". Pink News. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Cat Smith". Labour Party. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  8. ↑ Corbyn, Jeremy. "Report from Jeremy Corbyn MP - 30 years So far" (PDF). Junction Labour. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  9. 1 2 "Lancaster & Fleetwood". ukpollingreport.co.uk. UK Polling Report. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Cat Smith". LabourList. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "All Articles By: Cat Smith". Tribune. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Smith, Cat (22 August 2013). "Call a spade a spade and a Socialist a Socialist". LabourList. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Gerdis, Stefanie (8 May 2015). "Britain has elected the most LGBTI MPs in the world". gaystarnews.com. Gay Star News. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  14. ↑ Shariatmadari, David (13 May 2015). "The quiet revolution: why Britain has more gay MPs than anywhere else". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "The Corbyn earthquake - how Labour was shaken to its foundations". theguardian.com (The Guardian). 25 September 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  16. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/24/cat-smith-jeremy-corbyn-jesus_n_8030630.html
  17. ↑ "Who nominated who for the 2015 Labour leadership election?". newstatesman.com (New Statesman). 15 June 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  18. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/24/cat-smith-jeremy-corbyn-jesus_n_8030630.html

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Preceded by
Eric Ollerenshaw		 Member of Parliament
for Lancaster and Fleetwood
2015–present 		Incumbent
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