Andrew smith mp resignations

  • Oxfordshire's longest-serving MP, Andrew Smith, has announced he will not stand in June's snap election.
  • Andrew David Smith (born 1 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East from 1987 until 2017.
  • The work and pensions secretary, Andrew Smith, has resigned from his cabinet post, Downing Street confirmed tonight.

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    Andrew Smith: 'I want to spend more time with my family'

    'I play football with the kids, go to assembly, and I have tea with the family'

    'I play football with the kids, go to assembly, and I have tea with the family'

    Alan Milburn, 46, Secretary of State for Health

    Mr Milburn retired from his cabinet duties 14 months ago to spend more time with his partner Ruth, a doctor, and their two sons, Joe, 13, and Danny, seven.

    An entry on his website reads: "When I gave up my cabinet post last summer, it was the best decision I've ever taken. Unusually in politics, I did so voluntarily. I wasn't pushed. I chose to go. I did so because I had come to realise one simple thing: I couldn't have everything. Reconciling a demanding, 24-hour-a-day career with anything remotely resembling a normal family life had become, for me at least, impossible.

    "In those days the time I had at home was more snatched than quality time. In the end, something had to give. Mine was a very personal choice

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    Voting Record — Andrew Smith MP, Oxford East (10545)

    HouseDateSubjectAndrew SmithLab VoteRôle3 May 2017Stopped being Member, Regulatory Reform CommitteeCommons19 Apr 2017Government Assessment of Medium Term Economic and Budgetary Position for Submission to the European CommissionminoritynoLoyalCommons19 Apr 2017Technical and Further Education Bill — New Clause — Payments Related to Students åtagande ApprenticeshipsminoritynoLoyalCommons19 Apr 2017Early Parliamentary General ElectionMajorityayeLoyalCommons18 Apr 2017Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017 — Second ReadingminoritynoLoyalCommons29 Mar 2017Pension Schemes Bill — Clause 11 — Detailed Annual Reporting of Costs Incurred by Certain Occupational Pension SchemesminorityayeLoyalCommons29 Mar 2017Pension Schemes Bill —

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    Andrew Smith (British politician)

    British politician

    Andrew David Smith (born 1 February 1951[1]) is a British Labour Partypolitician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East from 1987 until 2017. He served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1999 to 2002 and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2002 to 2004.

    Smith retired from the House of Commons at the 2017 general election.[2]

    Early life

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    Smith was educated at Reading School and St John's College, Oxford, where he gained a BA and BPhil. He was the Member Relations Officer for Oxford and Swindon Co-op kultur from 1979 to 1987. He became an Oxford city councillor in 1976, leaving the council in 1987. He contested Oxford East in 1983.

    Parliamentary career

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    Smith was the Member of Parliament for Oxford East, which he won in 1987, defeating Conservative MP Steven Norris. After Labour won government in the 1997 general election he was made

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