Sandra Gidley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sandra Gidley
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 26, 1957(1957-03-26)
Age	67
Birthplace	Denbighshire
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Wales
Horoscope	Pisces

Sandra Gidley Biography

Sandra Gidley is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 26, 1957 in Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom. Sandra Julia Gidley (nee Rawson born the 26th of March in 1957) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. Her position was that of the Parliamentary Member (MP) in Romsey in Hampshire from 2000 until 2010. In 2010, she was sacked by Conservative campaigner Caroline Nokes.

Her membership in her party the Liberal Democrats in 1994, was elected as a councillor for the Test Valley Borough Council in 1995. She was also in 1997, the youngest woman to be elected as the mayor of Romsey.

Gidley was sometimes described as “Hampshire’s most expensive MP” by her political opponents, claiming £160,000 in 2007/08, and £187,000 in another year, midst concerns she was using tax payer’s money to fund her political and re-election campaign. It emerged the Tax Payer was paying money to her party’s constituency office, including paying the business rates, £60 for water, over £600 a year on telephones, and £960 on tea, coffee and cleaning. In 2011, her successor, Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, claimed £87,000 a year less in expenses than Gidley. However in 2017–2018 Caroline Nokes was claiming £168,297.18 in expenses. Whilst an MP, Gidley was claiming £1,638 a month for a luxury flat with indoor swimming pool in London, as well as £420 a month for food, and over £1,000 for Council Tax, and was criticised when it emerged she and three other Lib Dem MPs, accepted a £18,700 cash windfall from the landlord of the Dolphin Square flat, in return for agreeing to an increase in their rent, which was funded by the taxpayer. She was found to have “accepted one-off cash payment from the owners of an apartment block close to Parliament in return for agreeing to pay higher rent levels”. A Parliamentary Committee on Standards and Privileges was critical of Gidley’s ‘serious misjudgment’ in accepting the windfall, said she had broke the rules, and she was forced to apologise for it.

The Romsey constituency was abolished for the 2010 election, and in the new Romsey and Southampton North constituency she was defeated by the Conservative candidate Caroline Nokes, who took the new seat a majority of 4,165 votes following the expenses scandal, in which it emerged Gidley accepted a £18,700 ‘windfall’ from her London landlord in return for an increase in her taxpayer funded rent.

In 1979, she was employed by Badham Chemists as a pharmacist in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, until she was appointed a pharmacy manager for GK Chemists in Gloucester in the year 1980. She was appointed an interim pharmacist in 1982. She then joined Safeway as their Pharmacy Manager in 1992 then joined Tesco in the same role in 1999, where she remained till her appointment into the House of Commons.

Sandra Gidley Net Worth

Sandra Gidley is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandra Gidley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

born Sandra Julia Rawson in Rosset, Denbighshire in Wales, she was educated at Eggar’s Grammar School in Alton, Hampshire; the Afcent International School located in Brunssum, Netherlands; and the Windsor Girls School located in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She completed her studies at Bath University. University of Bath where she received an BPharm diploma in the year 1978. She became an MRPharmS in 1979.

Gidley as well as her husband Bill who is an engineer in electronics got married in 1979. They reside within Romsey from 1986. They have one daughter, Gemma, and a son, Nick, who both attended state school in their local community. Gidley has been for a number of years an antenatal educator on a volunteer basis with the National Childbirth Trust and has been involved with a number of charitable organizations.

After Romsey’s Conservative MP Michael Colvin died in a fire at his home in Tangley on 24 February 2000, Gidley was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the resulting by-election. She won the by-election, on 4 May, with a majority of 3,311 votes and won in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. However, in 2005 her majority was reduced to only 125 votes, the smallest of any Lib Dem MP, by the Conservative candidate, Caroline Nokes. She was appointed as the party’s spokeswoman on women’s issues and older people from

2001. In January 2006, as Kennedy faced allegations of a drink problem, Gidley was one of 11 members of the front-bench team to write to Kennedy asking him to resign. Gidley chaired her party’s Gender Balance Task Force, an initiative to get more women into politics.

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Who is Sandra Gidley Dating?

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Sandra Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sandra Gidley celebrates birthday on March 26 of every year.