Angela Smith (South Yorkshire politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Angela Smith (South Yorkshire politician)

British politician

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1961

Place of Birth: Grimsby, England, United Kingdom

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 until 2019.
She previously served as MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. Initially elected as a Labour MP, Smith was controversial among left-wing members of the Labour Party for her opposition to leader Jeremy Corbyn her opposition to water renationalisation, as well as her support for fracking; in 2018 Smith lost a motion of no confidence by her constituency party.
Smith resigned from the Labour Party in February 2019 alongside six other MPs in protest at Corbyn's leadership, and they formed The Independent Group (later renamed Change UK).
Shortly after she attracted further controversy for her comments on the BBC's Politics Live (see below).
In June 2019, she left Change UK to sit as an independent MP.
In September she joined the Liberal Democrats.
In the 2019 General Election, she stood on a Liberal Democrat ticket in Altrincham and Sale West, where she was placed a distant third.
In anticipation of that loss, she complained in advance of the election that she was being discriminated against because she would not receive the MP’s LOOP (double redundancy payment) as a consequence of changing constituencies.
It is unclear how this amounted to discrimination of any kind.