Prime Minister Gordon Brown Succeeded by Robert Buckland Preceded by Julia Drown Role British Politician | Succeeded by Desmond Swayne Name Anne Snelgrove Preceded by Angela Smith Nationality British Party Labour Party | |
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Born 7 August 1957 (age 66)
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK ( 1957-08-07 ) | ||
Education University of Winchester | ||
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Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South from 2005 to 2010; from June 2009 to May 2010, she was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In the 2010 general election, she lost her constituency of Swindon South to Conservative MP Robert Buckland. She unsuccessfully contested the seat again for the Labour party at the 2015 general election.
She was educated at Ranelagh School in Bracknell, the University of Winchester and City University, London, and previously stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Bracknell in 1997. She is a member of the Co-operative Party, Amicus and Amnesty International. Previously she worked in education, as a teacher for eight years and Local Education Authority Adviser for seven years. Anne is now back working in Education since January 2016
She led the campaign to help victims of the collapse of Farepak, the hamper company that was based in her constituency.
She launched the Geared for Giving campaign in May 2008 with Duncan Bannatyne OBE.
She became an Arthritis Research UK Arthritis Champion in 2015.