Cat Smith

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Cat Smith
MP
Shadow Minister for Women
Assumed office
18 September 2015
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Member of Parliament
for Lancaster and Fleetwood
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded by Eric Ollerenshaw
Majority 1,265 (3%)
Personal details
Born Catherine Jane Smith
(1985-06-16) 16 June 1985 (age 38)
Barrow-in-Furness,Cumbria, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater Lancaster University
Religion Methodism[1]
Website Official website

Catherine Jane "Cat" Smith[2] (born 16 June 1985)[3] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015.[4] In September 2015 she was appointed to the Official Opposition frontbench as a Shadow Minister for Women, serving under Kate Green.[5][6]

Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Smith moved to Lancaster in 2003 where she studied at Cartmel College, Lancaster University,[7] graduating with a BA in Sociology and Gender Studies. Before entering Parliament, she worked for Jeremy Corbyn and as a policy officer for the British Association of Social Workers.[8][9] She unsuccessfully contested Wyre and Preston North in 2010.[9]

Smith has contributed to publications and news blogs associated with the Labour Party, including LabourList and Tribune.[10][11] She identifies herself as a Christian, socialist, feminist, republican and trade unionist.[12] She is one of 27 LGBTI MPs elected at the 2015 general election,[13] identifying as bisexual,[14] and her partner is a man called Ben Soffa.[15] Smith has stated that she believes Jesus was a radical socialist.[16]

Cat Smith was one of the 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 and one of the 14 to support him.[17][16]

On 24 May 2016, Lancashire Constabulary announced that an investigation has been opened following allegations that Smith broke election spending laws by spending thousands of pounds more than she declared on expenses.[18][19]

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Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Lancaster and Fleetwood
2015–present		 Incumbent

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