Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Smith of Basildon
PC
The Right Honourable The Baroness Smith of Basildon PC
	Official portrait, 2024
Leader of the House of Lords; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	The Lord True
Leader of the Opposition in the Lords
	In office; 27 May 2015 – 5 July 2024
Party Leader	Harriet Harman (acting); Jeremy Corbyn; Keir Starmer
Preceded by	The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Succeeded by	The Lord True
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 8 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Keith Hill
Succeeded by	Anne Snelgrove
2009–2010
Junior ministerial offices
Minister of State
2009–2010	Third Sector
Under-Secretary of State
2006–2007	Fire Services
2002–2006	Northern Ireland
2005–2006
Northern Ireland Executive
Direct rule portfolios
2005–2006	Education
2005–2006	Employment and Learning
2005–2006	Enterprise, Trade and Investment
2003–2005	Health, Social Services and Public Safety
2002–2005	Culture, Arts and Leisure
2002–2005	Environment
2002–2003	Regional Development
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage ; 7 July 2010
Member of Parliament; for Basildon
	In office; 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	David Amess
Succeeded by	Stephen Metcalfe
Personal details
Born	Angela Evans; 7 January 1959; London, England
Party	Labour Co-op
Spouse	Nigel Smith
Alma mater	Leicester Polytechnic (BA)

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Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon (born 7 January 1959), is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.

Smith served in government as an Assistant Whip from 2001 to 2002 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2002 to 2007. She became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in 2007 and served until her appointment as Minister of State for the Third Sector in 2009.

Smith lost her seat to the Conservatives at the 2010 general election, contesting the reformed South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency. She was appointed to the House of Lords shortly after her defeat, where she became Shadow Deputy Chief Whip in 2012 and Shadow Leader in 2015.