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The Right Honourable Jacqui Smith MP
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
Home Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	John Reid
Government Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office 5 May 2006 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Hilary Armstrong
Succeeded by	Geoff Hoon
Member of Parliament for Redditch
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	constituency created
Majority	2,716 (6.7%)

Born	3 November 1962 (1962-11-03) (age 46) Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Hertford College, Oxford

Jacqueline Jill Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a British politician who has been Home Secretary since 28 June 2007 and is the current Member of Parliament for Redditch, since 1997. She was made a Member of the Privy Council in 2003.

Smith is the first female Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, and only the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State — after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary).

Early life

Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, Smith attended Dyson Perrins High School in Malvern. Her parents were teachers. Her local MP there, Conservative backbencher Sir Michael Spicer, recalled in Parliament in 2003 how he had first met her when he was addressing the sixth form at The Chase School, where Smith\'s mother was a teacher.Minister visits high school, This is Worcestershire, 8 June 2001. "So great was my eloquence that she immediately rushed off and joined the Labour party."House of Commons Hansard, 1 April 2003, column 876: Michael Spicer on Jacqui Smith. Smith went on to study for a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. After Oxford, she did a PGCE at Worcester College of Higher Education.

From 1986 to 1988, she taught Economics at Arrow Vale High School in RedditchNew Minister of State for Health, UK Transplant Bulletin, Autumn 2001, followed by a post at Worcester Sixth Form College before becoming Head of Economics and GNVQ Co-ordinator at Haybridge High School, Hagley in 1990.

She was elected MP for Redditch at the 1997 general election.

In government

Smith, a feminist http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2186100,00.html, was appointed as the Government\'s deputy minister for women and equality in 2003, working alongside secretary of state Patricia Hewitt. In this role she published the Government\'s proposals for Civil Partnerships, a system designed to offer same-sex couples an opportunity to gain legal recognition for their relationship with an associated set of rights and responsibilities.

Following the 2005 general election, Smith was appointed to serve as the Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education and Skills, replacing Stephen Twigg who had lost his seat. She agreed to fund LGBT history month.

In the 2006 reshuffle she was appointed Chief Whip.

Smith was regarded as a loyal Blairite during Tony Blair\'s premiership, and was brought to tears by Tony Blair\'s farewell appearance in the House of Commons."First woman at the Home Office: Jacqui Smith", The Independent . Retrieved on 2008-01-22.

Home Secretary

Jacqui Smith was appointed Home Secretary in Gordon Brown\'s first Cabinet reshuffle of 28 June 2007. Just one day into her new job bombs were found in London and a terrorist attack took place the following day. On 24 January 2008 she announced new sweeping powers, including the proposal to hold "terrorist suspects" or those "linked to terrorism" for forty-two days without charge.http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/24/britain.terror.ap/index.html

Voting Record

How Jacqui Smith voted on key issues since 2001 (They Work For You):

Voted against a transparent Parliament.
Voted for introducing a smoking ban.
Voted for introducing ID cards.
Voted for introducing foundation hospitals.
Voted for introducing student top-up fees.
Voted for Labour\'s anti-terrorism laws.
Voted for the Iraq war.
Voted against investigating the Iraq war.
Voted for replacing Trident.
Voted for the hunting ban.
Voted for equal gay rights.

Personal life

Smith married Richard J Timney (born 1963 in Ealing) in October 1987 in Malvern and has two sons (born September 1993 and June 1998).

On the 19 July 2007 she admitted to smoking cannabis a number of times in Oxford in the 1980s. She at first stated her behaviour had been wrong, and urged people not to try it especially considering the side effects and alleged strengthening of cannabis that had occurred since that time. Later on in the statement, she made a virtue of her having smoked cannabis, as having "given her the experiences to understand that she wants crime tackled". This information was made public the day after Gordon Brown appointed her head of a new government review of the UK Drugs strategy. The incident left some in the news to rename her Jacqui Spliff.ITV evening news, 19 July 2007, "I smoked cannabis"

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Video clips

Admitting she smoked cannabis as a student

Offices Held

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (constituency created)	Member of Parliament for Redditch 1997 – present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Hilary Armstrong	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 2006—2007	Succeeded by Geoff Hoon
Preceded by Hilary Armstrong	Government Chief Whip 2006—2007	Succeeded by Geoff Hoon
Preceded by John Reid	Home Secretary 2007 – present	Incumbent