Andrew Smith (politician)

Andrew Smith (2005)

Andrew Smith (born February 1, 1951 in Wokingham , Berkshire , England ) is a British Labor Party politician who has represented the constituency of Oxford East in the House of Commons since 1987 and was, among other things, Minister for Labor and Pensions.

Life

After visiting the Reading School studied Smith at St John's College of the University of Oxford and received his both a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.). His political career began in local politics when he in 1976 as a member of the city council of Oxford was chosen and this belonged to the 1987th Between 1979 and 1987 he was a manager at the Oxford and Swindon- based consumer cooperative Co-op society , where he was responsible for contact with members.

After he had run for the first time unsuccessfully in the constituency of Oxford East in the general election in 1983 , he was elected in the general election of June 11, 1987 in this constituency as a member of the House of Commons and has been a member of this since then.

During his long membership in parliament he was first from 1988 to 1992 spokesman for the opposition Labor group for higher education and then from 1992 to 1996 for the treasury and economic affairs, where he was also the "shadow chief secretary in the treasury" from 1994 to 1996 and from 1996 until 1997 was "shadow transport minister" in the shadow cabinet of his party.

After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997 , he became Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Employment, where he was responsible for employment, welfare, work and equal opportunities. After a cabinet reshuffle, he became Chief Secretary to the Treasury in October 1999 , before becoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the Prime Minister's second cabinet from May 2002 to September 2004 Tony Blair was.

After leaving the government, he was a backbencher in the House of Commons and was most recently a member of the Special Committee for the South East of England from 2009 to 2010.

Smith did not run in the 2017 early general election .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of 4 March 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Andrew Smith in Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Andrew Smith: Electoral history and profile ( Memento June 22, 2009 on the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 18, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Election 2017: Which MPs are standing down and which hope to return? BBC News , April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 .