Jeff Smith (British politician)

Jeff Smith is a British Labour Party politician from Manchester. He was elected at the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington.^[1] He has represented the Old Moat Ward on Manchester City Council since 1997.

Smith was a pupil at Manchester Grammar School.^[2]

He is a former Executive Member for Finance on Manchester City Council^[3] and a former governor of Parrs Wood High School.^[4]

He was chosen in June 2013 as the Labour candidate for Manchester Withington.^[5] He was selected in preference to the candidate backed by Unite the Union.^[6]

At the general election in May 2015 Smith was elected MP for Manchester Withington, beating the 10-year incumbent Liberal Democrat John Leech, with a majority of 14800.

Jeff Smith is also a part-time DJ and has performed regularly at V Festival and club nights Poptastic in Manchester and Star in Leeds ^[7]

Smith was one of the 184 Labour MPs to abstain on the 2015 Conservative Welfare bill.^[8] Smith is also one of the Labour Party whips.^[9] In a letter to Labour members in Withington constituency Smith admitted that Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had "let the Conservatives off the hook time and time again".^[10] Smith remains a Labour whip.

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