Roger Casale

Roger Casale
Member of Parliament
for Wimbledon
In office
1 May 1997 – 5 May 2005
Preceded by Charles Goodson-Wickes
Succeeded by Stephen Hammond
Personal details
Born (1960-05-22) 22 May 1960
Nationality British
Political party Labour (until 2017)
Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford
Committees European Scrutiny Committee

Roger Mark Casale (born 22 May 1960) is a former Labour Member of Parliament for Wimbledon, having represented the seat from 1997-2005.

In June 2013, Casale founded New Europeans, a pro-EU campaigning group.[1]

Early life

Roger Casale was born and brought up in South West London.

He gained a place at Brasenose College, Oxford where he gained his Bachelor's Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

In 1982 he won an exchange scholarship to the Stiftung Maximilaneum in Munich where he studied German and undertook studies in the development of moral reasoning at the Max Planck Institute and Ludwig Maximilians University.

He continued his studies in Berlin where he worked as a freelance translator and English teacher before returning to Munich to develop and staff the executive language training programme for BMW.

In 1991 he won a place on the Masters Programme at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H.Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna.

On completion of his Masters he returned to London where he taught at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the University of Greenwich and undertook research towards his PhD at the LSE's European Institute under Professor Robert Leonardi.

He was selected to fight the parliamentary constituency of Wimbledon in 1996 and was elected to parliament the following year.

Political Career

He gained the Wimbledon seat at the 1997 general election, one of the surprise results of the Labour landslide as Wimbledon had only ever previously been won by the Labour Party at the 1945 general election. Casale successfully retained the seat with a slightly increased majority at the 2001 general election but lost it to the Conservatives at the 2005 general election.[2]

After Parliament

Since losing his seat Casale has run his own parliamentary advisors company, Roger Casale Associates Ltd. In June 2013, Casale founded New Europeans, a pro-EU campaigning group.[1]

In May 2017, Casale resigned from Labour in order to contest the Vauxhall constituency, held by Kate Hoey, a pro-Brexit Labour MP.[3][4] For this purpose, Casale announced the creation of Yes2Europe as a new political party.[5] Lambeth for Europe, the local pro-EU group, did not endorse Casale, instead opting for the Liberal Democrat candidate, George Turner.[6] In the end, Casale did not contest the constituency in the 2017 general election.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "We are New Europeans | Politics @ Surrey". Blogs.surrey.ac.uk. 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Roger Casale: Electoral history and profile". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  3. ↑ "Roger Casale resigns from the British Labour Party". Europa United. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "2017 General Election – List of Candidates | Coffee House". Coffee House. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Roger Casale, former labour MP, announces the creation of the new pro European Party in UK Yes2Europe | Press Club Brussels Europe". www.pressclub.be. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ↑ http://www.libdems.org.uk/ (9 May 2017). "George Turner endorsed by Lambeth For Europe". Lambeth Lib Dems. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Vauxhall parliamentary constituency - Election 2017". BBC News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Goodson-Wickes		 Member of Parliament for Wimbledon
1997–2005		 Succeeded by
Stephen Hammond


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