Ruth Smeeth
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Ruth Smeeth MP |
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Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Joan Walley |
| Majority | 4,836 |
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29 June 1979 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Smeeth (2004–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Website | Official website |
Ruth Smeeth (born 29 June 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North at the 2015 general election.
Smeeth was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an "east London Jewish girl and a rugged Scottish trade unionist", she told an interviewer in 2016. Her maternal family arrived in London during the 1890s having escaped Russian pogroms. However, she had no contact with her father after her parents divorced when she was aged three. Smeeth attended school in Bristol, where her mother was later deputy general secretary for Amicus, and in her early life travelled extensively across the UK due to her parent's trade union work.
Smeeth graduated with a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Birmingham in 2000. She worked in Public relations, and from January 2004 to September 2005 worked in a PR role at Sodexo, before moving to become director of public affairs and campaigns at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in November 2005. She later worked in PR for Nestlé. In 2010 she was appointed as director of anti-racist organisation Hope not Hate.
Smeeth describes herself as 'culturally Jewish'.
Smeeth was selected as Labour Party candidate for the Burton constituency in the 2010 general election, finishing 6,304 votes behind Andrew Griffiths of the Conservative Party.
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