REGION IS TOO SPRAWLING

ABOLITION of the South East region should be considered, says Wealden MP, Charles Hendry.

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Nov 2006, 12:02 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:50 BST

He said: 'We in the South East do not have that sense of regional identity that the Government wish to believe that we have.

'In the Government's mind, the South East spreads from Dover to Portsmouth, to the outskirts of Cheltenham and the fringes of Oxfordshire and up to Milton Keynes.

'No one in my constituency in East Sussex believes that someone in Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire lives in the same region.

'It is an artificially created structure, and we should be considering abolishing it, rather than seeking to give it more powers.'