Anne Snelgrove Politician

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. Snelgrove has been selected by the Labour Party to stand in the next general election, expected to be held in 2015.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.Her praise of John Prescott before the House of Commons led the satirical magazine Private Eye to award her a special backbench "OBN" (Order of the Brown Nose - a satire on the honour OBE).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.