Introducing Dr Anne Lee

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Life in the South and East

Anne grew up in Brentwood, Essex. Her family come from East Anglia and London. She spent a year with her husband in Strasbourg where she attended the Universite. Most of the last twenty years have been spent in Clandon near Woking except when the whole family moved to Hereford and Worcester where she was a Head. "I am too familiar with the twin problems of traffic congestion and poor rural transport".

She is a Governor of Queenswood School in Hertfordshire, she worked for a while for the former Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University - Lord Butterfield. She lived in South Norfolk when she stood as a parliamentary candidate for the General Election there. She said "our family holidays have always been spent in Suffolk, and we have a special affection for the East Anglian coastline."

She currently works from her office in Guildford as an education adviser and lectures on mentoring and medical education at the University of Surrey. For a while she commuted regularly to Kent when she was asked to be the interim Head of a primary school in Rochester during a period of transition.

She said "In the South and East there are pockets of affluence living next door to pockets of great deprivation. Just as we need to make sure that we do not increase the gap between these two groups in our own country, it is also important for long-term harmony and growth to tackle this on a wider scale as well.

One of the most important things we have to do is to educate people about the advantages of the European Union. For example: two of those advantages are economic growth and environmental protection. Economically the European Union offers enormous markets for our goods and it has a good track record in protecting the environment (for example its aims to control cross border pollution). However it is far from perfect and we must explain again and again our need to participate vigorously in Europe so that we make it more democratic, transparent, efficient, and effective."