Christine Oddy

Christine Margaret Oddy (20 September 1955 – 27 July 2014) was an English politician.

[1] Oddy was the Labour Member of the European Parliament for the Midlands Central constituency from 1989 to 1999.

[1] However, she only obtained seventh place out of eight on the proposed Labour Party candidate list for the West Midlands constituency for the 1999 European Parliament elections.

[6] She resigned from the Labour Party, and contested, as an independent, the 1999 European election in the West Midlands constituency (gaining 36,000 votes) and the 2001 UK general election in Coventry North West.

[7] She later won damages from University Hospital Coventry in relation to alleged shortcomings with her care and treatment for cervical cancer.