Jacqueline Jill Smith (born on 3 November 1962) is a British Labor lawmaker. She was the Member of Parliament for Redditch from 1997 until 2010, the principal female Home Secretary and the third lady to hold one of the Great Offices of State, after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary). 

She surrendered as Home Secretary on 5 June 2009 after her contribution in the United Kingdom parliamentary costs embarrassment in which she had erroneously asserted that a room in her sister's home was her primary home. 

Smith, the most prominent figure engaged with the embarrassment, at that point lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 general political decision. Subsequent to going out of Commons, she stayed in open life as a political savant and took up parts in different areas, for example, wellbeing and media. 

In September 2020, it was declared that Smith would contend in the eighteenth arrangement of Strictly Come Dancing. She was cooperated with Anton du Beke. 

Smith wedded Richard Timney in October 1987 and they have two children. Smith utilized her better half as her Parliamentary associate on a pay of £40,000. In January 2020, she and Timney reported they had finished their marriage. 

In 2009 in developed that Timney had consistently composed letters in recognition of Smith to the Redditch Advertiser, neglecting to unveil that he was her significant other and that he was likewise utilized by her.