Suzanne Webb

Suzanne Webb (born 4 February 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stourbridge since the 2019 general election.

Suzanne Webb

MP
Member of Parliament
for Stourbridge
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byMargot James
Majority13,571 (29.7%)
Personal details
Born (1966-02-04) 4 February 1966[1]
Sutton Coldfield, England, UK
Political partyConservative
Websitewww.suzannewebb.org.uk

Background

She is from Sutton Coldfield and was previously a businesswoman.[2] Suzanne Webb has worked in a senior leadership role for a global logistics provider for 25 years.

Political career

Suzanne Webb worked as a Conservative Party Councillor for Birmingham City Council for two years. She was recently a councillor for the Birmingham Ward of Castle Vale. She became a member of Birmingham City Council on 3 May 2018. Her term of office was due to expire in 2022. She previously stood as a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament (UK) elections for the West Midlands. In 2018, she stood in the Birmingham local elections, as the Conservative Party candidate for the Castle Vale Ward, and in the 2016 Birmingham local elections, as the Conservative candidate for the Sutton Vesey ward.

Views on Brexit

She was adopted as candidate for Stourbridge at the last minute, after Margot James announced that she would not be contesting the 2019 election, due to disagreements with the Stourbridge Conservative Party. This followed Margot James having lost the Conservative whip in September and October 2019 and then regaining it, as a result of her voting on Brexit.[3] In an interview for a local newspaper, she [? who -- ambiguous] described herself as a 'proud Brexiteer'. However she had voted in the 2016 referendum to remain in the EU, as she was then living in Germany.[2]

gollark: I think they have to use the same application timings and suffer similar weirdness with prediction, since most undergraduate applications go through one central system.
gollark: It's kind of stupid but cannot practically be changed now.
gollark: Anyway, universities just have to base it on predicted grades, past grades, and a "personal statement" and "reference". So you get an "offer", usually saying "if you get X grades you can go to this university", and have to hope that you match that in the exams.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: Stay here, it would be inconvenient and expensive not to.

References
  1. https://mobile.twitter.com/ukmptweets/status/1224621533261455360
  2. Bev Holder (12 November 2019). "Stourbridge's new pro-Brexit candidate voted Remain". Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  3. "Stourbridge MP Margot James announces she will not stand at General Election". Express and Star. 3 November 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019. Her resignation letter to the Prime Minister.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Margot James		 Member of Parliament for Stourbridge
2019–present		 Incumbent
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