Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a British
Labour Party politician, who was the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Swindon South
South Swindon is a constituency in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Sir Robert Buckland, a Conservative, who previously served as Justice Secretary and Welsh Secretary.
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from 2005 to 2010; from June 2009 to May 2010, she was a
Parliamentary Private Secretary
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to
Prime Minister
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Gordon Brown
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. In the
2010 general election, she lost her constituency of Swindon South to Conservative MP
Robert Buckland
Sir Robert James Buckland (born 22 September 1968) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Wales from July to October 2022. He previously served as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2019 to 2021. A me ...
. She unsuccessfully contested the seat again for the Labour party at the
2015 general election.
She launched the
Geared for Giving campaign in May 2008 with
Duncan Bannatyne
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OBE.
She later chose to step down from this position and in September 2015 began working for a secondary school – focusing on educating students in Drama and Media Studies. She left in 2019 and is retired with her husband Mike Snelgrove.
References
External links
TheyWorkForYou.com - Anne Snelgrove MP
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1957 births
Living people
UK MPs 2005–2010
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
People from Wokingham
Alumni of the University of Winchester
People educated at Ranelagh Grammar School
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Wiltshire
21st-century British women politicians
Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister
21st-century English women
21st-century English people