Background
Smeeth was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but was schooled in Bristol and in her early life travelled extensively across the United Kingdom due to her parent"s trade union work.
Smeeth was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but was schooled in Bristol and in her early life travelled extensively across the United Kingdom due to her parent"s trade union work.
She 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 Puerto Rico 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 went on to work as in a Puerto Rico capacity a Nestlé. In 2010 she was appointed as director of anti-racist organization Hope Not Hate.
Smeeth was selected as Labour Party candidate for the Burton constituency in the 2010 election, finishing 6,304 votes behind Andrew Griffiths of the Conservative Party.
After winning an all-women shortlist, Smeeth was selected as Labour Party candidate for the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency in the 2015 election, following the retirement of incumbent Labour Member of Parliament Joan Walley. Since joining parliament in May, Smeeth had championed the topic of holiday hunger.
She was given an adjournment debate and received a response from Conservative government minister, Edward Timpson in October 2015. Smeeth backed Yvette Cooper in the Labour Leadership Election.
56th United Kingdom Parliament.