Karin Smyth
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Karin Smyth MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bristol South |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Majority | 7,128 (14%) |
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8 September 1964 London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
University of East Anglia University of Bath |
| Website | Official website |
Karin Smyth (born 8 September 1964) is a British Labour Party politician. Her parents were Irish and emigrated to England in the 1950s. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South at the 2015 general election.
Born in London, she was educated at Bishopshalt School, Uxbridge College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1988) where she was President of the Union of UEA Students, and the University of Bath (MBA, 1995).
She worked as an NHS manager at Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group. She was a non-executive director of Bristol North PCT from 2002 to 2006.
On 27 June 2016, she gave support to a series of shadow cabinet resignations aimed at ousting the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn MP, in an open letter to constituents.
Since October 2016 Smyth has been Parliamentary Private Secretary to Keir Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.
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