Antoinette Sandbach
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| Political party | Conservative Party |
Antoinette Sandbach (born in Llangernyw) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician.
[edit] Background
Antoinette's family have been farming in North Wales for generations. She studied law and then obtained a Masters degree in Environmental and Humanitarian Law at Nottingham University. Qualifying as a barrister in 1993, she practiced in a leading criminal legal aid chambers 9 Bedford Row for 11 years.
A single mother, she left the Bar returning to Wales and now works and lives on the farm, also working part time helping those with housing and tax credit problems. A keen camper van enthusiast she has travelled the UK in her 1978 VW for 12 years during her holidays.
Antoinette was elected for two terms to the Bar Council, to speak up for and represent the interests of young Barristers. She was involved in helping prepare the Bar's response to new legislation.
[edit] Political career
After leaving the Bar and moving back to Wales she now works for David Jones MP Shadow Minister for Wales assisting people with housing and tax credits problems.
In 2007 she stood in Delyn in the Welsh Assembly Elections reducing the Labour majority to just 511 with a swing of 3.7% in an election which saw turnout increase in the constituency by 10%. She is currently the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Delyn at the next general election.
