Sarah Wollaston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sarah Wollaston

British politician

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1962

Place of Birth: Woking, England, United Kingdom

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Sarah Wollaston

  • Sarah Wollaston (born 17 February 1962) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
  • She was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Totnes, having been first elected in 2010 for the Conservatives, and Chair of the Liaison Committee and the Health Select Committee in the House of Commons.
  • In February 2019, she resigned from the Conservative Party, along with two of her peers, and joined The Independent Group, later styled Change UK.
  • Four months later, she quit the party to sit as an independent MP.
  • On 14 August 2019, she joined the Liberal Democrats. Wollaston was born in Woking, Surrey, and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School.
  • She qualified in 1986 and worked as a junior hospital doctor and then as a general practitioner (GP).
  • After more than 20 years in clinical practice, Wollaston ran for political office.
  • She was the first person to be selected as the parliamentary candidate for a major British political party through a postal open primary; during the campaign, she emphasised that she was not a career politician, and had a real job.
  • As the Conservative Party candidate for Totnes at the 2010 general election she won the seat with an increased majority, increasing it further in 2015. She rebelled against the Cameron-Clegg government on several key votes – voting in favour of a referendum on British membership of the European Union in 2011, for a cut in the EU budget in 2011, and against military intervention in Syria in 2013.
  • She has been a vocal proponent of minimum unit pricing for alcohol and has spoken out against political patronage in Westminster.
  • Initially a prominent Eurosceptic, in June 2016 she announced that she was no longer supporting the Vote Leave campaign in the referendum on European Union membership, and would vote to remain in the EU.Wollaston was elected as chair of the Liaison Committee on 13 November 2017.She lost her seat in the 2019 general election.

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