Member

As I have said, we are not really London; we are Essex. We are close to London, we travel to London and we go to London for lots of reasons, but our identity and our heritage are really Essex. I have to say that the mayoralty of London in the last period has not worked for boroughs such as Havering. It may work for inner London, but it really does not work for boroughs on the very edge of Greater London, which pay in colossal sums of money and do not get the services that we are funding.