Jo Gideon
MP
Member of Parliament
for Stoke-on-Trent Central
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byGareth Snell
Majority670 (2.1%)
Personal details
Born
Joanna Mary Gideon

(1952-11-07) 7 November 1952 (age 71)
Birmingham, England, UK
Political partyConservative
Children3, including Ingrid Oliver
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham

Joanna Mary Gideon is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency since the 2019 general election.[1][2]

Early life and career

Gideon studied at Stourbridge High School, and then earned a degree (BA Hons in German) from the University of Birmingham. She has worked in higher education as a small business owner: she ran a business importing and selling handmade paper.[3][2]

Political career

Gideon contested the marginal seat of Scunthorpe at the 2015 general election, but lost to the Labour incumbent, Nic Dakin. At the 2017 general election, she stood in another marginal seat, Great Grimsby, and finished 2,565 votes behind Labour's sitting MP, Melanie Onn.[4] Gideon was elected to Ashford Borough Council in May 2019 as a borough councillor, where she was a cabinet member for Community Safety & Wellbeing.[5] She stood down as councillor following her election to Parliament in December 2019, when she narrowly gained Stoke-on-Trent Central from Labour for the Conservatives, it being the third marginal seat she had stood for election in.[2]

She has also worked as an aide to Damian Green, former Cabinet minister and MP for Ashford since 1997.[6]

On 9 February 2023, she announced she would be standing down at the next general election. She is the second so-called red wall MP to do so, after Dehenna Davison in Bishop Auckland.[7]

Personal life

Gideon was previously married, she has two sons, and a daughter, actress Ingrid Oliver.[8] She lists her recreations as "theatre, travel, family".[2]

References

  1. ^ "Stoke-on-Trent Central parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Gideon, Joanna Mary, (born 7 Nov. 1952), MP (C) Stoke-on-Trent Central, since 2019". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u294042. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Jo Gideon". Who can I vote for. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Great Grimsby". BBC. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Cllr Jo Gideon". Ashford Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Disclosable Pecuniary Interests Councillor Jo (Joanna) Gideon". Ashford Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. ^ Bond, Nicholas Cecil, David (9 February 2023). "Jo Gideon: First Tory MP in key 'Red Wall' seat won't stand at next General Election". Evening Standard. Retrieved 9 February 2023.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Ingrid Oliver". IMDb. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byGareth Snell Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central 2019–present Incumbent


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