Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the

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(MP) for

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from 2005 to 2010; from June 2009 to May 2010, she was a

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. In the 2010 general election, she lost her constituency of Swindon South to Conservative MP

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. 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

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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.

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