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Laura Kyrke-Smith

Laura Elizabeth Kyrke-Smith (born 15 September 1983) is a Labour politician, academic and charity worker who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she is the first Labour MP for Aylesbury as well as the first female MP to represent Aylesbury in the House of Commons.

Kyrke-Smith was born in September 1983 to Peter St. L Kyrke-Smith, son of BHS Kyrke-Smith of Penbedw estate near Nannerch in Wales, and to Lyndsay Madeleine Pelly, daughter of Peter Jeremy Pelly and his wife Dorothy Joan Hill..

Kyrke-Smith was state educated before attending Robinson College, Cambridge, from 2002 to 2005, where she read history and volunteered with the charity Student Action for Refugees. She then went on to study for an MSc in international relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), graduating in 2007.

She was chair of the socialist society Labour Campaign for International Development from 2013 to 2017, and also worked at Portland Communications and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a policy analyst.

From 2016 to 2020, Kyrke-Smith was the International Rescue Committee's Director of Communications in Europe. From 2019 to 2024, she was the UK Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee. From 2021 to 2024 she was on the Board of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). She previously worked as an assistant to Professor Charlie Beckett at the Polis media project at the LSE.

She is credited as a reader-contributor to the 3rd edition of Lonely Planet's Tanzania and 2nd edition of The Rough Guide to Tanzania guidebooks.

In the 2021 Buckinghamshire Council elections Kyrke-Smith stood for Labour in the Little Chalfont & Amersham Common ward coming 8th out of the eleven candidates with 448 votes.

In the 2024 general election, she gained the Aylesbury seat from Rob Butler, a member of the Conservative Party. Her victory ended a century-long streak of Conservative and Unionist MPs in Aylesbury, starting in the 1924 general election.

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