Gisela Stuart

Gisela Gschaider Stuart (born November 26, 1955 as Gisela Gschaider) is the member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Labour Party.

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November 26 - 1955 - Member of Parliament - Birmingham Edgbaston - United Kingdom - Labour Party

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Stuart was born in Velden, Bavaria, Germany and has taken her parent's Roman Catholic faith. She moved to Britain when she married her husband and lived in the midlands. In the 1997 general election, she won the Birmingham Edgbaston (UK Parliament constituency) seat, which had been held by the Conservative party for over seventy years. Her victory was the first seat to change hands on election night and therefore heralded the Labour landslide of May 1, 1997.

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Bavaria - Germany - 1997 general election - Birmingham Edgbaston (UK Parliament constituency) - May 1 - 1997

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Stuart was a junior health minister until 2001 and accompanied Tony Blair on a visit to a Birmingham hospital where he was surprised by Sharron Storer who demanded that he improve health services; some commentators speculated that Blair's embarrassment at this incident during the 2001 election campaign led to Stuart being dropped from the government. She sat on the European Convention's 13-strong presidium or steering group, but after the draft constitution was published, she complained that it had been drawn up by a "self-selected group of the European political elite" determined to deepen European integration.

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2001 - Tony Blair - Sharron Storer - 2001 election campaign - European Convention

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