Karin Smyth

Karin Smyth is the Labour candidate for the Parliamentary constituency of Bristol South. BBC West political reporter Paul Barltrop described the constituency of Bristol South as "Labour's safest seat in the South West".
Smyth ran the office of former Bristol West Labour MP Valerie Davey and organised her successful re-election in the highly marginal seat in 2001. She grew up in Hillingdon where her dad was a lorry driver and her mum worked behind a bar. They came from Ireland during the 1950s for work. She has three children: William, Jamie, and Sean and claims that being a mother is a political asset. "because I understand what it means to bring up children and everything that goes with that."
She is a former non-executive director of an NHS trust, a school governor and a member of the union, Unison. She is employed as the manager of the Bristol Clinical commissioning group and was previously a Non-Executive director on Bristol North Primary Care Trust from 2002-2006.

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