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[[File:Jacqui Smith.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Jacqui Smith]]{{Template:Lobbying_Portal_badge}} '''Jacqui Smith''' is a former UK [[Labour Party]] home secretary (2007-2009), chief government whip and minister for schools (2005-2006). She was the member of parliament for Redditch from 1997 until May 2010.
 
[[File:Jacqui Smith.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Jacqui Smith]]{{Template:Lobbying_Portal_badge}} '''Jacqui Smith''' is a former UK [[Labour Party]] home secretary (2007-2009), chief government whip and minister for schools (2005-2006). She was the member of parliament for Redditch from 1997 until May 2010.
  
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In 2015 Smith was appointed chair of public affairs for UK lobbying firm [[Westbourne Communications]].
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In 2015 Smith was appointed chair of public affairs for UK lobbying firm [[Westbourne Communications]]. <ref> Anna Reynolds, [http://www.prweek.com/article/1334015/former-home-secretary-jacqui-smith-hired-westbourne-communications Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith hired by Westbourne Communications], ''PRWeek'', 17 February 2015, accessed 5 December 2016. </ref>
  
 
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Jacqui Smith
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Jacqui Smith is a former UK Labour Party home secretary (2007-2009), chief government whip and minister for schools (2005-2006). She was the member of parliament for Redditch from 1997 until May 2010.

In 2015 Smith was appointed chair of public affairs for UK lobbying firm Westbourne Communications. [1]

Revolving door

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After leaving politics Smith became a consultant for one of the Big Four accountancy firms, KPMG in October 2010, a position that was cleared by the prime minister's Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.[2] She held this until June 2011. [3] According to the Daily Mail, KPMG had "won an important government contract while Smith was Home Secretary when it was commissioned to carry out a major study into whether drink industry giants were breaking guidelines on the sale of alcohol". [4]

In February 2015 lobbying firm Westbourne Communications appointed Smith to chair its public affairs practice. [5]

Affiliations

Resources

See: Fracking lobbying firms

Notes

  1. ↑ Anna Reynolds, Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith hired by Westbourne Communications, PRWeek, 17 February 2015, accessed 5 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Twelfth Annual Report, 2010-2011
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Jacqui Smith, LinkedIn profile, acc 11 June 2013
  4. ↑ Geoffrey Levy, Tony's cronies and snouts in the trough: How one-time Labour bigwigs are raking it in thanks to the private sector, 10 June 2011, acc 28 Sept 2011
  5. ↑ Anna Reynolds Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith hired by Westbourne Communications PR Week, 17 February 2015, accessed 26 February 2015