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. November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area in Birmingham, England, UK. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
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. // Headline text The Headline text Insert non-formatted text hereThe meaning of the coat of arms The Golden Lion The rampant lion Palatinate in its golden-and-red amour stands for the administrative region of Upper Palatinate. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency located in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... Sharron Storer is a resident of Birmingham, England, who became famous in 2001 for publicly criticising British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the 2001 British General Election campaign about conditions in the National Health Service. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The European Convention, sometimes known as the Convention on the Future of Europe, was a body established by the European Council in December 2001 as a result of the Laeken Declaration. ...
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Stuart was born in Velden, Bavaria, Germany and has taken her parent's Roman Catholic faith.
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.
GiselaStuart MP, whose influential Fabian pamphlet did much to begin a British political debate about the EU constitution, says that the government's shift "will show up the absence of any coherent policy on Europe from the Conservative opposition, who have been hiding behind the vacuous slogan of 'we will ask the people'".
"GiselaStuart, a former pro-European minister who became sceptical when she served as one of the British representatives on the body which drew up the constitution said: "I would welcome it if the government does confirm that it intends to hold a referendum on the constitution.
GiselaStuart also demanded that all MPs be given a free vote on the ratification of the treaty if the government continues to rule out a referendum.
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