Geraldine Smith

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This article is about a politician in the UK. For the actress from New York, see Geraldine Smith (actress).

Geraldine Smith MP

Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Mark Lennox-Boyd
Majority	4,768 (48.8%) [1]

Born	29 August 1961 (1961-08-29) (age 47) Belfast
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Maria Geraldine Smith, known as Geraldine Smith, (born 29 August 1961, Belfast) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Labour Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997.

She is former pupil of Morecambe High School on Dallam Avenue and Lancaster and Morecambe College on Morecambe Road in Lancaster, where she gained a Diploma in Business Studies. Her first campaign was supported by the Communication Workers Union, for whom she was formerly an officer. Prior to becoming an MP she was a Lancaster City Councillor and worked for the Royal Mail from 1980-97.

After the Labour Party's poor showing in the local government elections of May 4, 2006 she was linked to a campaign [2] on a timetable for Tony Blair's departure as Prime Minister and also expressed a preference for Gordon Brown to succeed him. She also found "outrageous" the survival of John Prescott as a government minister following the reshuffle.[3]. For this criticism of the Deputy Prime Minister's behavior, as well as for her defence of the Chinese Cockle Pickers rights in her Morecambe constituency, the right-wing critic Richard Littlejohn described her as a "heroic MP" on the BBC's Question Time programme on 4 May 2006. She has said that she believes William Hague will be the next Conservative Prime Minister rather than David Cameron [4].

Geraldine Smith is the Patron of the Morecambe Bay National Osteoporosis Society Support Group.

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Preceded by Mark Lennox-Boyd	Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale 1997 – present	Incumbent

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