Sarah Madeleine Webster Smith is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Hyndburn since

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. In an article for The Lead, Smith described her first weeks in Parliament while caring for her four month old son. She said of her previous work that "I spent the last 15 years raising funds for youth projects, helping young people get jobs and apprenticeships and developing partnerships to tackle complex problems like youth unemployment". Following her election, Smith resigned as a councillor in Blackpool, and moved to Hyndburn, as promised during her election campaign. Her campaign focused on three key messages, improving opportunities for future generations, regenerating the high streets across the constituency, and improving the existing housing stock alongside supporting brown field focused developments. Smith was originally born in Birmingham, before being raised in North East Scotland. She married her husband James at St. Peters and St Paul's Church in

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, James' father having been a vicar there for 18 years. Smith has stated that "family, friends and the church are most important to her" https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24561935.hyndburn-mp-wants-clayton-kids-chances-match-chelseas/.

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