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Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Smith of Basildon
PC
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
Assumed office
27 May 2015
Leader Harriet Harman (Acting)
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Shadow Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
In office
16 May 2012 – 28 May 2015
Served with The Lord Tunnicliffe
Leader Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by The Lord Tunnicliffe
Succeeded by The Lord McAvoy
Minister of State for Third Sector
In office
8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Kevin Brennan
Succeeded by Position abolished
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
27 June 2007 – 8 June 2009
Served with Ian Austin
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Keith Hill
Succeeded by Anne Snelgrove
Member of Parliament
for Basildon
In office
1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by David Amess
Succeeded by Stephen Metcalfe
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
7 July 2010
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born Angela Evans
(1959-01-07) 7 January 1959 (age 58)
London, England, UK
Political party Labour Co-operative
Spouse(s) Nigel Smith
Alma mater Leicester Polytechnic

Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, PC (born 7 January 1959) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 until losing her seat to the Conservatives at the 2010 General Election.

Smith was a Minister of State in the Cabinet Office, incorporating the offices of Minister for the Third Sector and Minister for Social Exclusion. She was created a Life Peeress in 2010 and became Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords in May 2015.

Smith attended Pitsea Junior School and Chalvedon Comprehensive (later Chalvedon School) in Basildon, before reading Public Administration at 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 London Borough of Newham. She then worked for the League Against Cruel Sports from 1983 to 1995, becoming the head of Political and Public Relations. She was a political researcher from 1995 to 1997.


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