Ruth Lauren Smeeth
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Ruth Smeeth was selected as the Labour Party PPC for safe seat of Stoke-on-Trent North on 5 April 2014.[1] Smeeth was elected in May 2015 with a majority of 4,836. [2]
Previously she worked for Sodexho, before joining the pro-Isreal lobby group BICOM in August/September 2005 as its Director of Public Affairs. She left in early 2007[3] and by Nov 2007 she was working at Nestle[4].
She stood for election unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in Burton, West Midlands[5][6] and then worked for the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate.[7]
Staff
- Mary Doherty Office manager, Hope Not Hate [8]
- Cathy Perry [8]
- Glen Watson [8]
Affiliations
- BICOM
- Labour Party
- Member of the Armed Forces Bill Select Committee from November 2015 [9]
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces - deputy vice chair (Navy) - circa 2018
- Hope Not Hate
- Index on Censorship
Resources
- Asa Winstanley, Former Israel Lobby Spin Doctor Aims for Seat in UK Parliament, Electronic Intifada, 4 April 2014.
Notes
- ↑ Laura James, Ruth Smeeth to replace Joan Walley as Labour Parliamentary candidate 5 April 2014, accessed 11 April 2014
- ↑ Ruth Smeeth Express, accessed 19 May 2015
- ↑ Leon Symons, ‘Israel research centre faces staff exodus’, Jewish Chronicle, 20 April 2007, p.8.
- ↑ Labour chooses election fighter, Uttoxeter Advertiser, accessed 20 August 2012
- ↑ Ruth Smeeth for Labour NEC, RuthSmeeth.com, accessed 21 August 2012
- ↑ Election 2010: Burton constituency, BBC News Online, accessed 21 August 2012
- ↑ Ruth Smeeth profile, LinkedIn, accessed 21 August 2012
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Register of interests of members' secretaries and research assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 25 April 2016
- ↑ Dods people, 'Arrivals, moves and departures', Civil Service World, accessed 3 November 2015