Gisela Stuart

Gisela Stuart is a member of parliament for the constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston, England, representing the Labour Party.

Europe lost and found

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 power (i.

By Gisela Stuart

/ 3 Jun 2009

Referenda: democracy vs elites

In his article in openDemocracy following the vote in the Republic of Ireland on the European Union's Lisbon treaty, George Schöpflin makes a confusing case against the use

By Gisela Stuart

/ 18 Jun 2008

The body of democracy

Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton say that democracy is under attack from without and from within and that the best way to respond is to open up the debate and

By Gisela Stuart

/ 15 Nov 2005