STRICTLY'S Jacqui Smith has found love in lockdown with a top politics lecturer after the end of her 33-year marriage. The former Labour Home Secretary split from husband Richard Timney in January this year, and met new love Dr Graham Timmins in March just days before the UK's first lockdown.
The Mail on Sunday reports the couple met outside a yoga class in her home town of Malvern, Worcestershire, before getting to know each other over Zoom during lockdown.
Dr Timmins is a highly acclaimed international politics lecturer at Birmingham University and is fluent in Russian according to the publication.
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