[10] After being ejected from the British National Party,[10] Smith joined the Patriotic Alternative and became the group's Scottish organiser[11] in March 2023.

[5] Smith has worked as a part-time children's sport coach and the manager of tourist accommodation on the Isle of Skye.

[5] In 2022, Smith pled guilty at the Portree Sheriff Court to breaches of the Firearms Act 1968 and received an admonition.

[16] Smith is engaged to Claire Ellis, a native of Slough who was an organiser for Patriotic Alternative's southwest branch while she was in Devon.

[17] According to The Herald, Ellis and far-right streamer Jody Swingler are founders of a Skye-based soap company, Clean & Pure, with white nationalist links.