REGION IS TOO SPRAWLING
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.
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Hide Ad'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.'