Early Life
Born Annette Kelly, she was educated at Romford County Technical School (became the Marshalls Park Upper School in 1973, then the site was knocked down in 2000 for housing, but Marshalls Park School still exists at the site of the former lower school at Pettits Lane – the former Pettits Secondary School) on Havering Drive in Romford, the London School of Economics where she received a BSc degree in Economics. She qualified as a teacher at Hughes Hall, Cambridge. She was a tutor with the Open University for 19 years from 1971 and was a school teacher from 1974, including at Aylesbury, and then Head of Economics at the independent Talbot Heath School for Girls in Bournemouth when she left in 1994.
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