Dr Lee Rotherham is a political veteran having spent much of his career in involved in European Union affairs. After researching for the 'Westminster Group of Eight' Eurorebels, he advised three successive Shadow Foreign Secretaries, a role part-based within the European Parliament. This expertise led to his appointment as Chief of Staff to the Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory MP, British parliamentary delegate to the Convention on the Future of Europe, and a central role behind delegates opposing the European Constitution and the drafters of the Minority Report. He has been closely involved in a number of grassroots EU campaigning organisations over the years, most notably the Bruges Group, CAFE, and as a columnist for the European Journal. He has been extensively and internationally published on a palette of subjects. Since the TPA’s last edition of the Bumper Book of Government Waste (which he jointly wrote), 2008 has seen him co-author a major book for Open Europe on the EU’s PR budgets.