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Stuart James Andrew (born 25 November 1971) is a Welsh Conservative politician. The Member of Parliament for the Pudsey constituency in West Yorkshire, he grew up in the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales, and later attended Ysgol David Hughes in Menai Bridge. ==Biography== After leaving school he worked as a fundraiser for the British Heart Foundation. Before being elected to parliament he led the fundraising team for Martin House Hospice. Andrew stood as a Conservative candidate in the 1997 Parliamentary election in Wrexham. Subsequent to this Andrew joined the Labour Party, leaving the Conservatives citing issues with the "direction of the party". Upon losing his council seat, he rejoined the Conservative Party and moved to Leeds. He served as a Leeds City Council Councillor from 2003–2010, initially representing the Aireborough ward, and following boundary changes representing the Guiseley and Rawdon ward. He was Elected as Member of Parliament for Pudsey in the general election on 6 May 2010. In October 2010, it was reported that Andrew joined the Welsh Affairs Select Committee. On 22 February 2012 Andrew was headbutted and punched in a House of Commons bar during a disturbance created by Scottish Labour MP Eric Joyce, but the Pudsey MP tweeted the next day that, "I'm OK."〔Joe Murphy, ("MP goes berserk in Commons bar brawl" ), ''The Evening Standard'', 23 February 2012.〕 In 2012, Andrew brought forward a bill that would create a new power for Governors to "Destroy or otherwise dispose of any unauthorised property found within a prison or an escort vehicle". The bill was supported both by the Coalition and also the Labour Party with Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Sadiq Khan saying he backed the bill. Andrew is a patron of LGBTory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lgbtory.co.uk/patrons )〕 During the debates on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which he subsequently voted for, Andrew responded to comments from Gerald Howarth about "aggressive homosexuals" by telling of a time when he had been attacked in the street and beaten unconscious “because of who and what I am”. 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「Stuart Andrew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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