Anne Snelgrove
{{Short description|British Labour politician}}
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| honorific-prefix =
| name = Anne Snelgrove
| office = Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
| primeminister = Gordon Brown
| predecessor = Angela Smith
| successor = Desmond Swayne
| term_start = 8 June 2009
| term_end = 6 May 2010
| constituency_MP1 = South Swindon
| predecessor1 = Julia Drown
| successor1 = Robert Buckland
| term_start1 = 5 May 2005
| term_end1 = 12 April 2010
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|08|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
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| nationality = British
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| party = Labour
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| alma_mater = University of Winchester
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Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South for one term.
Political career
Snelgrove was elected as MP to Swindon South at the 2005 general election.,{{cite news |url=https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10325860.south-swindon-mp-candidate-anne-snelgrove-resumes-campaign-after-cancer/ |title=South Swindon MP candidate Anne Snelgrove resumes campaign after cancer From June 2009 to May 2010 |publisher=Swindon Advertiser |date=1 April 2013 |first=David |last=Wiles |accessdate=28 January 2024}} Snelgrove was Parliamentary private secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. At the 2010 general election, she lost her constituency of Swindon South to Conservative MP Robert Buckland.{{cite news |url=https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8152588.anne-snelgrove-loses-seat-to-tories/ |title=Anne Snelgrove loses seat to Tories |publisher=Swindon Advertiser |date=7 May 2010 |accessdate=28 January 2024}} She unsuccessfully contested the seat again for the Labour party at the 2015 general election.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-32645929 |title=Election 2015: Clean sweep for Tories in Wiltshire |publisher=BBC News |date=8 May 2015 |accessdate=28 January 2024}}
Other work
She launched the Geared for Giving campaign in May 2008 with Duncan Bannatyne OBE.{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6578432.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612195633/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6578432.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2011|title=Could you live on 98 per cent of your pay?|last=Ford|first=Emily|date=26 June 2009|work=The Times|publisher=News International|accessdate=2009-10-24}}{{cite news|url=http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11759220.Anne_Snelgrove_becomes_an_Arthritis_Champion/|title=Anne Snelgrove becomes an Arthritis Champion|date=29 January 2015|work=Swindon Advertiser|publisher=Newsquest|accessdate=2015-02-18}}
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.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/anne_snelgrove/south_swindon TheyWorkForYou.com - Anne Snelgrove MP]
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Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Category:People from Wokingham
Category:Alumni of the University of Winchester
Category:People educated at Ranelagh Grammar School
Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Wiltshire
Category:21st-century British women politicians
Category:Parliamentary private secretaries to the prime minister