I'm honoured to represent Faversham and Mid Kent. It's a glorious constituency, stretching from the historic market town of Faversham, across the North Downs, to the low weald, Headcorn and Boughton Monchelsea.
I hold my surgeries in beautiful medieval villages like Lenham and Bearsted, and in new community centres built to support growing populations on the edges of Maidstone and Faversham. Some of the pleasure of the job is representing such different communities and being an advocate for all my constituents.
It's sad that the Boundary Commission's draft proposals would split up the Faversham and Mid Kent constituency. Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton, Sutton Valence and Langley, Park Wood, Headcorn, Leeds and Harrietsham and Lenham would become part of a new Tonbridge and the Weald constituency; Faversham, East Downs and Boughton and Courteney would be part of a Canterbury and Faversham constituency, and a redrawn Maidstone constituency would include Shepway North and South, Bearsted, Downswood and Otham, Detling and Thurnham and Boxley. but the rationale behind the review is to make all parliamentary constituencies a similar size, so each person's vote carries the same weight.
There is now a consultation period, so people can give their views on the proposals by clicking here.
Meanwhile, I will keep on working hard for everyone across Faversham and Mid Kent.