Rebecca lives in Hadleigh with her husband Frank and their young son, Ted. Her background is business.  She spent the majority of her working life with Phillimore & Co, publishers of British local history, including books on Benfleet, Canvey Island, Hadleigh and Thundersley.  She joined their board as Marketing Director in 1997. 

Rebecca has served as a local councillor and as a Campaign officer at Conservative Central Office, where she worked alongside many of the current Conservative Front Bench.  More recently she has worked as Special Adviser to Tim Yeo MP while he was Shadow Secretary of State for DTI, Health, Education, Transport and Environment respectively.

Outside of work and politics, Rebecca's time is taken up with family things, a bit of gardening and DIY, and the odd dog walk. 

Local Campaigning

Rebecca has been campaigning hard on local issues, fighting for the protection of green belt land from Labour's centrally-imposed housing targets, including volunteering with the Canvey Island Green Belt referendum. As well as working with residents groups against inappropriate industrial development on Canvey Island and seeking improved infrastructure across the Borough. 

She has arranged a number of visits to Castle Point of leading Conservative politicians, so key figures in the next Conservative Government can see first hand the problems and challenges faced by local residents and hear their views.

Rebecca says: "I want to give Castle Point residents a strong and influential voice in Westminster, someone who can get things done, get people here heard. 

"I want a new kind of politics.  People are fed up with the way many current MPs have behaved.  I want people who are disillusioned to get involved, not turn away.  I want to get more people involved and interested in the Conservatives again, especially young people."