Jacqui Smith
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The Right Honourable Jacqui Smith |
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| Home Secretary | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Alan Johnson |
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Government Chief Whip Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
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In office 5 May 2006 – 28 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Hilary Armstrong |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Minister for Schools | |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 5 May 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Stephen Twigg |
| Succeeded by | Jim Knight |
| Minister of State for Industry and the Regions | |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 6 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Minister of State for Health | |
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In office 11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Denham |
| Succeeded by | Rosie Winterton |
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Member of Parliament for Redditch |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Karen Lumley |
| Personal details | |
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3 November 1962 Malvern, Worcestershire, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Hertford College, Oxford |
Jacqueline Jill "Jacqui" Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a British former politician. She was the Member of Parliament for Redditch from 1997 until 2010 for the British Labour Party, the first female Home Secretary and the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State, after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary).
Smith was one of the MPs investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over a variety of inappropriate expense claims. Smith, whose case was arguably among the most significant of the MPs' expenses cases, was never prosecuted, and was asked to pay back less than average after investigation by Sir Thomas Legg; but she was found to have "clearly" broken the rules on expenses and ordered to apologise.
On 5 June 2009, she ceased to be Home Secretary in the Cabinet reshuffle, and then lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 General Election.
Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, Smith attended Dyson Perrins High School in Malvern. Her parents were teachers, and both Labour councillors; although her mother briefly joined the SDP. Her local MP, Conservative backbencher Sir Michael Spicer, recalled in Parliament in 2003 how he had first met her when he was addressing the sixth form at The Chase School, where Smith's mother was a teacher: "So great was my eloquence that she immediately rushed off and joined the Labour Party." Smith read PPE at Hertford College, Oxford and gained a PGCE from Worcester College of Higher Education.
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