Talk:Henry Smith (British politician)

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Henry has never worked for the NHS. comment removed. he actually ran his own business for a while, but the admin seem to have overlooked that. poor research and misinformation. they should be blocked! useless hypocrites.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.217.202.141 (talk) 11:21, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ex-wife?

unsourced - vandalism, or just under-reported? Little grape (talk) 21:39, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed it back to the original, really needs a reliable source for such a claim. MilborneOne (talk) 16:19, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have copy edited to the sourced material.SovalValtos (talk) 19:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have spoken to Horsham County Court, and they do not seem to make records of divorce cases available to the public. There is some public evidence that Jennifer Miller-Smith still works for Henry Smith, but he has not declared her as a family member in the register of members interests since 2016. If we had some published statement on their divorce that could be cited, then I suppose this part of the article could be reworded. Recent Runes (talk) 21:41, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have reworded the biographical section to limit its claims about Smith's relationships to the facts that are supported by the references. i.e. That he was married to Millar-Smith at the time of the news reports. I also found that he removed Millar-Smith from the biography on his own website in 2015, according to the snapshots on the Internet Archive. Recent Runes (talk) 08:06, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality and Borders Bill

There are claims that the government will be including a clause proposed by Smith to benefit the Chagos Islanders. This should be followed up to see what the government actually does. See https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/crawley-mp-secures-historic-victory-for-towns-chagossian-community-3620862 and https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3023/publications Recent Runes (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Updated on 5 Sept 2022. Recent Runes (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]