Jacqui Smith
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"Jacqueline Jill Smith" is a member of the Labour Party (UK)/British Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Redditch (UK Parliament constituency)/Redditch from United Kingdom general election, 1997/1997 until United Kingdom general election, 2010/2010, the first female Home Secretary and the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State, after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs/Foreign Secretary).

Smith was one of the Member of Parliament/MPs investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over a variety of inappropriate expense claims Smith, whose case was arguably among the most significant of the MPs' expenses cases, was never prosecuted, and was asked to pay back less than average after investigation by Sir Thomas Legg; but she was found to have "clearly" broken the rules on expenses and ordered to apologise. On 5 June 2009, she ceased to be Home Secretary in the Cabinet reshuffle, and then lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the United Kingdom general election, 2010/2010 General Election.

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