Angela Evans Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, 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 C
Official portrait, 2024
Smith at the Lords' dispatch box in 2021
Smith holding the Cap of Maintenance at the 2024 King's Speech.
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The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. Its origins lie in
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
…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. Smith was born on 7 January 1959 in London…
House of Lords debates situation in Ukraine
The constitutional concept of the King-in-Parliament is embodied within the chamber at the State Opening which inaugurates each parliamentary session (as in 2024, above).
Queen Anne addressing the House of Lords, c. 1708–1714, by Peter Tillemans
An early 19th-century illustration showing the east wall of the House of Lords in the centre