Karin Smyth

}} Karin Marguerite Smyth (born 8 September 1964) is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South in 2015.
 * name            = Karin Smyth
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 * image           = Official portrait of Karin Smyth crop 2.jpg
 * office          = Member of Parliament for Bristol South
 * term_start      = 7 May 2015
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 * predecessor     = Dawn Primarolo
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 * majority        = 15,987 (29.4%)
 * birth_date      = September 8, 1964
 * birth_place     = London, United Kingdom
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 * party           = Labour
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 * children        = 3
 * alma_mater      = University of East Anglia University of Bath
 * website         = Official website

Early life and career
Born in London, her parents had emigrated from Ireland to England in the 1950s. Smyth was educated at Bishopshalt School, Uxbridge College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1988) where she was President of the Union of UEA Students, and the University of Bath (MBA, 1995). Smyth worked as an office manager for Bristol West MP Valerie Davey from 1997.

Smyth worked as an NHS manager at Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group. She was a non-executive director of Bristol North PCT from 2002 to 2006.

Parliamentary career
After becoming an MP at the 2015 general election, Smyth became a member of the Public Accounts Committee in July 2015.

On 27 June 2016, she gave support to a series of shadow cabinet resignations aimed at ousting the Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn MP, in an open letter to constituents. She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.

From October 2016 to July 2017, Smyth was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Keir Starmer, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. . Since July 2017 she has served as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.

On 28 June 2017, a constituent of Smyth's, Matthew Niblett, was jailed for 14 weeks after making several phone calls threatening to kill the MP.