Angela smith mp biography of martin

  • Martin Salter, National Campaigns Coordinator for the Angling Trust, talks to Angela Smith MP at the launch event of the WWF River Runs.
  • In addition to this, a URL link to each MP's biography has been displayed.
  • Smith was a Minister of State in the Cabinet Office, incorporating the offices of Minister for the Third Sector and Minister for Social Exclusion.

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    Labour members vote no confidence in Blairite MP

    Angela Smith, the right-wing Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, has received a no confidence vote from members of her CLP. This is why we need mandatory reselection.

    On Friday 17th November, the Penistone and Stocksbridge CLP passed a motion of no confidence in their MP, Angela Smith. The motion passed by 27 to 20 at a CLP delegate meeting. It specifically calls for the Labour whip to be removed from Smith, such is the level of anger from local members at the antics of this Blairite MP.

    The strongly worded motion gives several key reasons for members’ loss of confidence in the MP: her support for fracking; her opposition to water renationalisation; her constant undermining of the Corbyn leadership; and also her snubbing of the local party by refusing to attend the annual fundraising dinner it had organised in February.

    Angela Smith has been vocal in her opposition to water renationalisation and is in fact linked to the

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    The dataset shows the name, political party and constituency of all 674 MPs in the UK. In addition to this, a URL link to each MP’s biography has been displayed.

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    Martin Salter

    British politician

    Martin John Salter (born 19 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1997 to 2010.

    Early life and career

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    Born to Ray and Naomi Salter in Hampton, Middlesex,[1] he received a grammar school education before attending the University of Sussex,[2] though he left before gaining a degree, saying 'academic life was not for him – "I wanted to do politics, not study it"'.[3][4] Both his parents were active trade unionists, and grandfather George Baker was sent to Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1917 as a First World Warconscientious objector.[3] He cites his politics teacher from the age of 14 for developing his political interest, when he took him to the Politics Society in Kingston to hear Tony Benn speak, saying that his teacher 'spotted something in me, a real interest'.[3]

    Starting in 1975, Salter began employment in the