Simon Pepper lives in Chigwell Row and is head of government and politics at Chigwell School. He studied politics at Nottingham university and completed his PGCE at the Institute of Education in London. Pepper has taught government and politics at sixth-form level for the past three years, having begun his teaching practice at BSix Sixth Form College in Hackney, and is now in his second year teaching at Chigwell School. He will be fighting the election on a platform of localism and restoring power to the constituents of Epping Forest over their daily lives.