Owen Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Owen Smith
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 2, 1970(1970-05-02)
Age	54
Birthplace	Morecambe
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Morecambe
Horoscope	Capricorn

Owen Smith Biography

Owen Smith is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 2, 1970 in Morecambe, Morecambe, United Kingdom. Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019.

In 2006, while still Head of Policy and Government Relations for Pfizer, Smith fought the 2006 Blaenau Gwent by-election. At the time Smith said that Pfizer had been “extremely supportive” of his aspirations to public office. Smith lost to independent candidate Dai Davies: Smith polled 37% of the vote while Davies polled 46.2%. During the by-election campaign, Smith spoke with Wales Online and expressed his support for the private sector playing a supportive role in the NHS, private finance initiative (PFI) schemes, but has since described such schemes as a failure.

Subsequently, he was selected as the candidate for the safe Labour seat of Pontypridd and won it by a majority of 2,785 votes at the 2010 general election, a much narrower margin than that of the previous Labour MP, Kim Howells, with the Labour majority falling by 25.7%. He then joined the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and was appointed as a Shadow minister for Wales.

He was amongst the 557 MPs who voted in favour of the UN-backed air strikes on Libya in 2011.

In 2006, Smith said while discussing the Iraq War that “I thought at the time the tradition of the Labour Party and the tradition of left-wing engagement to remove dictators was a noble, valuable tradition”. However, later during the same by-election campaign, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Smith argued that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake and “the world would have been a safer place if we hadn’t done it.”

Owen Smith Net Worth

Owen Smith is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Owen Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2002 he became a special adviser for Paul Murphy, then the Secretary of State for Wales. He later followed Murphy to the Northern Ireland Office.

Smith then worked in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry for five years, and became Head of Policy and Government Relations for pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer in 2005. After leaving Pfizer in September 2008, he joined Amgen, another pharmaceutical company.

He is married to Liz, who is a primary school teacher, and moved to Llantrisant after being elected in 2010, having previously lived in Surrey. They have three children.

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When interviewed on the Today programme in July 2016, Smith revealed that he used to be a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and “fundamentally wants the world to be without nuclear bombs.” He has described himself as being a “sceptic” of the Trident nuclear programme and as favouring a multilateralist approach to nuclear disarmament (a position he noted as being Bevanite). In 2016, he stated that he would vote to renew Trident, saying: “I want a world without nuclear weapons altogether, but I don’t think we hasten that by divesting.” Smith did vote in favour of the government’s Trident renewal programme motion on 18 July 2016, as did another 139 Labour MPs, in line with long-standing party policy on at-sea nuclear deterrent.

Facts & Trivia

Owen Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Owen Smith celebrates birthday on May 2 of every year.

Smith stated in November 2016 that he would vote against the invocation of Article 50 to commence Brexit negotiations, and reaffirmed he supported a second referendum on British withdrawal from the EU. In the series of Parliamentary votes on Brexit in March 2019, Smith voted against the Labour Party whip and in favour of an amendment tabled by members of The Independent Group for a second public vote.