Nick Smith (British politician)
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Nick Smith MP |
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Member of Parliament for Blaenau Gwent |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Dai Davies |
| Majority | 12,703 (40.1%) |
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Camden Borough Councillor for Kings Cross ward |
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In office 7 May 1998 – 4 May 2006 |
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| Succeeded by | Geethika Jayatilaka |
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| Born | January 1960 Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | Two daughters |
| Residence | Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck, University of London |
Nicholas Desmond John Smith (born 14 January 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaenau Gwent since the May 2010 election. From 1998 to 2005 he was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden.
Born in 1960 into a family of miners and steel workers, Smith grew up in Tredegar and was educated at its comprehensive school and Birkbeck College, University of London, where he graduated with a MSc in Economic Change.
Smith became a Labour Party organiser in Wales and later worked around the world as an International Democracy Adviser, for the Democratic Party in the United States, and for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. His first significant job for the Labour Party was as agent for Frank Dobson in Holborn and St Pancras, and he later acted as agent for Emily Thornberry in her narrow victory in Islington South at the 2005 general election. From 1993 to 1998 he was an officer at the Labour Party's national headquarters, where he was responsible for Labour’s membership drive. In 1998 he was first elected as a councillor of Camden London Borough Council and was re-elected in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed as the Council's Cabinet member for Education, a post which he continued to hold for some months during 2005 while serving as Secretary General of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, in Brussels. From there, he became Campaigns Manager for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and his last full-time job before his arrival in the House of Commons was as Director of Policy and Partnerships at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
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