Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Robert Conquest, Jacqui Smith, James Manby Gully, Caroline Lucas, William Huskisson, Geoffrey Dummer, R. E. Foster, Douglas Weiland, Anne Diamond, William Langland, Geoffrey Foster, Harry Foster, Charles William Dyson Perrins, Jamie McKelvie, John Greenstock, Patrick James Donahue, Neville Foster, H.F.S. Morgan, Scott Russell, Wilfrid Foster, Liam Killeen, Basil Foster, Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne, Robert Welch, Peter Morgan, John Toppin, Frank Lee Pyman, Horace MacCartie Eyre Price, Peter Phelps, John Harber, Hilary Corke, Ruth Fawcett. Excerpt: Jacqueline Jill "Jacqui" Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a member of the British Labour Party. She served as the Member of Parliament for Redditch from 1997 until 2010 and was the first ever female Home Secretary, thus making her the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State - after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary). She was one of the MPs investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over a variety of inappropriate expense claims Smith, whose case arguably became one of the most high-profile of the MPs expenses claims, was found to have "clearly" broken the rules on second home expenses and ordered to apologise. On 5 June 2009, she stood down as Home Secretary in the Cabinet reshuffle, and lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 General Election. Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, Smith attended Dyson Perrins High School in Malvern. Her parents were teachers, and both Labour councillors, although her mother briefly joined the SDP. Her local MP, Conservative backbencher Sir Michael Spicer, recalled in Parliament in 2003 how he had first met her when he was addressing the sixth form at The Chase School, where Smith's mother was a teacher. "So great was my eloquence that she immediately rushed off and joined the Labour Party." Smith read PPE at Hertford College, Oxford and gained a PGCE from Worcester College of Higher Education. Working as a school teacher, Smith taught Economics at Arrow Vale High School in Redditch from 1986 to 1988 and at Worcester Sixth Form College, before becoming Head of Economics and GNVQ Co-ordinator at Haybridge High School, Hagley in 1990. Smith also worked as secretary of the National Organisation of Labour Students and describes herself as having a "feminist background". Smith was selected to stand for election for Labour through an all-women shortlist. This method of selection was subsequently declared illegal in January 1996 as it breached sex dis