Gisela Stuart

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Gisela Stuart (2008)

Gisela Stuart (* 26 November 1955 as Gisela Gschaider in Velden ) is one of Germany coming British politician of the Labor Party .

Life

Gisela Gschaider was born on November 26th, 1955 in Velden, Lower Bavaria. She attended the state secondary school in Vilsbiburg , moved to Great Britain in 1974 and studied business administration at the Polytechnic in Manchester and law at the University of London . In 1980 she married Robert Scott Stuart.

She has two children and is of Roman Catholic denomination. Her marriage to Robert Scott Stuart divorced in 2000. In 2010 she married Derek Scott , who had previously been Tony Blair's business advisor. Her husband died on July 31, 2012.

Political career and positions

In 1997 she won in the general election for the lower house of the parliament seat of the constituency Birmingham -Edgbaston, the more than seventy years ago by representatives of the Conservative Party had been held, and defended its mandate in the general election in 2001 , 2005 , 2010 and 2015 .

From 1999 to 2001, Stuart was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health. Afterwards she was a member of the Presidium of the European Constitutional Convention , which in 2002 and 2003 prepared a draft constitution for the European Union.

Politically, she belongs to the right wing of the Labor Party. Stuart supported Tony Blair's decision for the Iraq war and advocated the re-election of US President George W. Bush . She said the victory of Democratic candidate John Kerry would cheer those forces who wanted to destroy liberal democracies. By that, Stuart was referring to the terrorists and suicide bombers. Stuart is also a signatory to the Henry Jackson Society Principles , which advocate the spread of liberal democracy around the world and the provision of massive armed forces for worldwide use.

In the wake of the Greek sovereign debt crisis , Stuart recommended that Germany leave the euro zone . In an interview with the BBC on October 29, 2012, she also spoke out in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. She does not believe in the chances of success in the attempt by Prime Minister David Cameron to renegotiate the terms of British membership in the EU, as he has nothing to offer his negotiating partners. Stuart chairs the Change Britain advocacy group, founded in 2016 , whose goal is the UK's exit from the EU (Brexit) and of which Boris Johnson is a key figure .

In the early parliamentary election in June 2017 , Stuart did not run again.

In November 2019, she encouraged Labor voters to vote for the Conservatives around Boris Johnson in the 2019 general election. The Labor Party had been changed so drastically under Jeremy Corbyn that it, like many people, was torn between loyalty to its own party and the good of the country.

Web links

Commons : Gisela Stuart  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the Labor Party ( Memento of April 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Gisela Stuart's speech after the 1997 election results were announced (from 0:08:40) on YouTube , accessed on February 15, 2019 (no longer available).
  3. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election for Birmingham Edgbaston. bbc.co.uk, accessed December 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election for Birmingham Edgbaston. BBC News , accessed December 20, 2015 .
  5. ^ Patrick Hennessy: Anti-Kerry remarks by Labor MP put Blair on the spot. The Telegraph , October 31, 2004, accessed December 20, 2015 .
  6. ^ Gisela Stuart: Comment: Germany should leave the monetary union. In: welt.de . May 5, 2010, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ Labor MP Gisela Stuart: UK should leave European Union. BBC News , October 29, 2012, accessed December 20, 2015 .
  8. ^ Change Britain - Making Brexit Happen. In: changebritain.org. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  9. ^ Team page - Change Britain. In: changebritain.org. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Election 2017: Which MPs are standing down and which hope to return? BBC News , April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gschaider, Gisela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Velden , Bavaria