Gisela Stuart
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The Right Honourable Gisela Stuart MP |
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Stuart in 2008
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Jill Knight |
| Majority | 2,706 (6.6%) |
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Gisela Gschaider 26 November 1955 Velden, West Germany |
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British, by naturalisation, Formerly German or West German, West German at birth |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Stuart (1980–2000; div.) Derek Scott (2010–12; died) |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Alma mater |
University of London University of Birmingham |
| Occupation | Chair, Change Britain |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Gisela Gschaider Stuart (born 26 November 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997. Born and raised in West Germany, she has lived in Britain since 1974.
Stuart served as Chair and leader of the Vote Leave Campaign Committee as Co-Convenor with Conservative Michael Gove MP. The Vote Leave campaign was successful in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016. Since September 2016, Stuart has served as Chair of Vote Leave's successor organisation, Change Britain.
Gisela Gschaider was born in Velden, Bavaria, and raised in her parents' Roman Catholic faith. She attended the Realschule Vilsbiburg on Amselstraße in Vilsbiburg.
After serving an apprenticeship in bookselling she moved to Britain in 1974 in order to improve her English and to undertake a Business Studies course at Manchester Polytechnic. Stuart subsequently relocated to the Midlands.
She graduated from the University of London with an LLB in 1993, having studied through the University of London External System. She began researching for a PhD in trust law (ownership of pension funds) at the University of Birmingham whilst also lecturing Law to AAT students at Worcestershire College, but did not complete her PhD and instead went into politics full-time.
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