About Stephen Stephen Gilbert was born and raised in his mid-Cornwall constituency. He attended Fowey Community School and St Austell College before moving to Aberystwyth to study International Politics in 1995 and later for a Masters' degree at the London School of Economics. Stephen joined the Liberal Democrats in 1992 and became Cornwall's youngest ever Councillor in 1998 aged just 21. He later worked as a researcher for Welsh MP Lembit Opik and Cornwall's former MEP Robin Teverson