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British Labour politician

This article is about the former MP for Penistone and Stockbridge. For Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, see Angela Smith (South Yorkshire politician) (disambiguation).

Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010.

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A member of the Labour Party, she was previously an MP for Labour, later for Change UK, later still as a member of The Independents, then joined the Liberal Democrats before leaving Parliament in 2019. She rejoined Labour in 2022.^[3]

Smith was an early critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, backing a no-confidence vote in 2016; in part due to this position, she lost a no-confidence motion in her constituency.

She resigned from Labour in February 2019 alongside six other MPs in protest at Corbyn's leadership, and