Laura Smith (politician)
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Laura Smith MP |
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Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich |
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Assumed office 9 June 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Timpson |
| Majority | 48 (0.09%) |
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| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Manchester Metropolitan University |
Laura Smith is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe and Nantwich at the 2017 general election, having defeated the incumbent Conservative Edward Timpson.
Smith attended Brine Leas School in Nantwich, Cheshire and South Cheshire College in Crewe. She went on to study at Crewe campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, qualifying as a school teacher. She founded a tutoring business, called One-to-One Learning UK, based in Nantwich, where she worked with hundreds of schoolchildren in the local area.
Smith was involved in the campaign against school funding cuts in Cheshire East. She told the Crewe Chronicle: "I sat at home after going to a public meeting at Brine Leas School" about proposed education cuts "and I decided enough was enough regarding the funding for schools and I posted something on Facebook. From that, I got involved with the fairer funding".
She helped to organise a rally in Nantwich in February 2017 that was attended by over 400 people. A few weeks following that, she helped lead a march of around 1,000 people through Sandbach. She joined the headteacher of Brine Leas School, Andrew Cliffe, on a visit to London to lobby MPs against the proposed funding changes. She was subsequently announced as the Labour Party candidate for the Crewe and Nantwich constituency in the snap 2017 general election on 1 May 2017. She was reported to have been selected ahead of Labour's 2015 candidate in the constituency, Adrian Heald.
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