Mike Denham

Freedom for the South-east!

Mike Denham says the region is being fleeced to pay for the rest of the UK

issue 23 November 2002

I once got bashed up by the late John Smith. It was at one of those charm-offensive lunches in the City, and he had asked why London’s booming financial firms kept all their jobs in the South-east rather than sharing them round the rest of the country. My mistake was to suggest that dispersing jobs like that might damage competitiveness and profitability.

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