Labour in fight to retain seat vacated by Vote Leave campaigner
The outgoing MP for Edgbaston, Gisela Stuart, will be best remembered in popular memory for the events which book-ended her Parliamentary career.
In May 1997, she was the first televised Labour gain of what became Tony Blair's landslide. In winning Birmingham Edgbaston, she ended the Conservative Party's 99-year hold on the seat.
Two decades later the German-born politician chaired the Vote Leave campaign in the EU referendum, one of the most high-profile Labour MPs to be publicly anti-EU.
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