Gisela Stuart MP

Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston

Gisela Stuart was educated in what was then West Germany where she served an apprenticeship in Bookselling. After Business Studies in Manchester she got a law degree from London University. She ran the London Book Fair in the 1980s, and then became a lecturer. She did research into pension law at Birmingham University. Elected to Parliament in 1997 Gisela has been PPS in the Home Office, a Minister in the Department of Health, Parliamentary representative in the Convention on the Future of Europe, has sat for two terms on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and is now a member of the Defence Select Committee. She wrote the Fabian pamphlet The Making of Europe’s Constitution, and is editor of the weekly parliamentary political magazine The House.