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Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 17 February 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician. Wollaston studied at King's College London School of Medicine, and after graduation was a general practitioner for two decades. Before becoming the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes in 2010, she was the first person to be selected as a parliamentary candidate for a major British political party through an open primary, in which she emphasised that she was an outsider to politics, who had worked a 'real job'. She won the nomination for the Conservative candidature and at the general election won the seat with an increased Conservative majority. Wollaston is Chair of the Health Select Committee, having joined the Committee following her election to the House of Commons and later winning election to the Chair in 2014. She has gained a reputation for being an independent-minded MP, not afraid to stand up to her party's leadership or oppose them when she believes that their decisions go against the interests of her constituents. As such, she has rebelled against the Government on several key votes—voting in favour of a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union in 2011, for a cut in the EU budget in 2011 and voting against military intervention in Syria in 2013. She has been a vocal proponent for minimum unit pricing for alcohol and has spoken out against political patronage in Westminster. In 2013, she jointly won The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Award for her opposition to a Royal Charter on press regulation. ==Early life and education== A descendant of Polish immigrant John Israel Wollstein (the family changed their surname during World War I), Wollaston was born in Woking, Surrey in 1962. Born into a service family, Wollaston moved frequently in her early life as her father Ken was posted to different bases with the Royal Air Force, including postings in Hong Kong and Malta, where she spent the largest portion of her childhood. She was educated at a mixture of military and civilian schools, spending the longest time at Tal Handaq in Malta and eventually attending a state secondary school in Watford. While at school there, Wollaston took on a range of part-time jobs, including a Saturday job at the local branch of John Lewis department store. In 1980, Wollaston went to Guy's Hospital to study medicine, taking an additional course in pathology at the same time as her primary course. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pathology in 1983,〔"The Class of 2010", Total Politics/Weber Shandwick, London, 2010, p. 330-2.〕 and graduated in Medicine from King's College London in 1986. While at Guy's, she met her future husband Adrian and, alongside her studies, took up a part-time role as a Healthcare Assistant at the hospital to cover the cost of her degree. Later, she would train as a general practitioner, qualifying in 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Wollaston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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