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  • Be honest about pensions // August 12th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Change is needed, argues local MP Gisela Stuart in the Summer 2009 edition of Fabian Review.
    There used to be a deal: modest wages in exchange for job security and a pension where the benefits are defined and index linked.  But we have now lost sight of this, and the difference between what is happening in [...]

  • Letter to The Guardian, 31 July 2009 // August 3rd, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Dear Editor
    Things are tough now. Labour has been in government for 12 years and people ask what else we can do for them. But things were tough 14 years ago when I was selected in a marginal seat in the Midlands which had never been Labour before. On election night it was constituencies like Edgbaston [...]

  • Commons debate on Afghanistan and Pakistan // July 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Gisela took part in the Commons debate on Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday 16 July.  The following is a transcript of her speech.  To read the full debate, please follow the link to the Hansard record here.
    Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab): It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for North-East Hampshire [...]

  • A reason to fight // July 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Gisela Stuart MP says Afghanistan’s problems are the world’s problems - and the UK’s, in an article for the Birmingham Post.
     
    Three of the young soldiers who died in Afghanistan last week were still in primary school when Operation Enduring Freedom started in 2001. This was the name given to the American military operation which had [...]

  • A day at Westminster // July 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Local journalist Rachel Louvaine reports on a day spent with Gisela in Parliament, in an article reproduced by kind permission of the Edgbaston and Harborne Observer.  You can also read the original article on the Observer’s website by following this link . 
    The media has been full of stories of late, detailing scandal and excessive claims made [...]

  • Commons debate on European affairs // June 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    European affairs were on the House of Commons agenda on Tuesday 16 June.  This is a transcript of Gisela’s contribution to the debate:
    Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab): It is a great honour to follow the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague). Many of us in the Chamber have spent years debating matters [...]

  • Europe lost and found // June 5th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    The democratic flaws of the European Union make elections to the European Parliament matter less than they should, says Gisela Stuart in an article for the website OpenDemocracy.
    A Chinese politician once told me that there are two ways of governing, which can be compared to running a restaurant by periodically changing either the party in [...]

  • House Magazine Diary - May 2009 // June 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    This has not so much been a case of a week being a long time in politics but a monumental car crash which had been coming for years playing itself out in slow motion.
    We knew that our expenses would be published in July, but once the Daily Telegraph started releasing them bit by bit, I [...]

  • The killing // May 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    Edgbaston MP Gisela Stuart visits Afghanistan to see how our troops are fighting the Taliban
    This is the third time that I have been to Kabul via Islamabad with the Foreign Affairs Committee.
     
    Each time security has become tighter. Even in Pakistan we can’t stay in a hotel now. We are accommodated inside the secure High Commission [...]

  • House Magazine Diary - March 2009 // March 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Speeches, Articles and Interviews

    In a flush of eagerness I applied to the Armed Forces parliamentary scheme when I first came into the House in 1997. Joining the Marines seemed a good idea then. At first they wouldn’t have me, then I wouldn’t have time for them so when both sides finally got together 12 years later I came to the conclusion that I was too old for the Marines and I opted for the Navy instead.

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