Geraldine Smith

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Geraldine Smith MP
Geraldine Smith
Member of Parliament
for Morecambe and Lunesdale
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 May 1997
Preceded by Mark Lennox-Boyd
Majority 4,768 (48.8%) [1]
Born 29 August 1961 (1961-08-29) (age 46)
Belfast
Nationality British
Political party Labour

Maria Geraldine Smith, known as Geraldine Smith, (born 29 August 1961, Belfast) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Labour Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997.

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[edit] Early life

She is former pupil of Morecambe High School on Dallam Avenue and Lancaster and Morecambe College on Morecambe Road in Lancaster, where she gained a Diploma in Business Studies. Her first campaign was supported by the Communication Workers Union, for whom she was formerly an officer. Prior to becoming an MP she was a Lancaster City Councillor and worked for the Royal Mail from 1980-97.

[edit] Parliamentary career

After the Labour Party's poor showing in the local government elections of May 4, 2006 she was linked to a campaign [2] on a timetable for Tony Blair's departure as Prime Minister and also expressed a preference for Gordon Brown to succeed him. She also found "outrageous" the survival of John Prescott as a government minister following the reshuffle.[3]. For this criticism of the Deputy Prime Minister's behavior, as well as for her defence of the Chinese Cockle Pickers rights in her Morecambe constituency, the right-wing critic Richard Littlejohn described her as a "heroic MP" on the BBC's Question Time programme on 4 May 2006. She is in favour of a future William Hague Premiership.[4]

[edit] Personal life

Geraldine Smith is the Patron of the Morecambe Bay National Osteoporosis Society Support Group.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Mark Lennox-Boyd		 Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale
1997 – present		 Incumbent


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