British-German politician and life peer (born 1955)
The Right Honourable
The Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston
PC
Official portrait, 2020
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
In office 29 July 1999 – 8 June 2001
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
The Baroness Hayman
Succeeded by
Hazel Blears
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 17 September 2020
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston
In office 1 May 1997 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by
Jill Knight
Succeeded by
Preet Gill
Personal details
Born
Gisela Gschaider
(1955-11-26) 26 November 1955 (age 68) Velden, Bavaria, West Germany
Citizenship
British
Political party
Independent (2020–present)
Labour (1994–2019)
Spouses
Robert Stuart
(m. 1980; div. 2000)
Derek Scott
(m. 2010; died 2012)
Children
2
Alma mater
University of London
University of Birmingham (did not graduate)[1]
Occupation
First Civil Service Commissioner
Website
Commission Website
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (néeGschaider; born 26 November 1955) is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party, she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.[2]
Born and raised in West Germany, Stuart moved to the United Kingdom in 1974. Elected for Birmingham Edgbaston at the 1997 general election, she was chair of the Vote Leave Campaign Committee and was one of its most high-profile figures, along with the Conservative MPs Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Vote Leave campaign was successful in achieving its goal at the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum of winning a majority of votes for Leave. From 2016 to 2020, she served as chair of Vote Leave's successor organisation, Change Britain.
After she had left Parliament, Stuart was appointed by the Conservative government as chair of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the UK Foreign Office dedicated to conflict resolution in international relations, in October 2018. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group (CRG), a cross-party organisation chaired by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, which seeks a new constitutional settlement in the UK by way of a new Act of Union. The Constitution Reform Group's new Act of Union Bill was introduced as a Private Member's Bill on 9 October 2018.
Baroness Stuart was appointed as the First Civil Service Commissioner in March 2022.[3]
^C. K. Jones, The People's University (London, 2008), p. 33
^"Parliamentary career for Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston". House of Lords.
^"Appointment of Baroness Gisela Stuart to the post of First Civil Service Commissioner". gov.uk. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
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