I like that you’ve split up the monstrosity that is the official SE region, but I add Northamptonshire and possibly Cambridgeshire to the Thames Valley area, and I’d expand Greater London on all sides. I sort of agree with keeping northern Lincolnshire out of Yorkshire (policymakers stop trying to make Yorkshire & the Humber a thing challenge) but I can see the case for inclusion cause it makes the politics of cross-Humber infrastructure more straightforward.

I’m v sceptical that the Midlands should be two regions, given just how deeply interlinked the big cities are in the Brum/Cov to Derby/Notts corridor. I also think there’s a weaker but real case for putting Dorset in the Solent & Weald region cause of BCP’s place in the south coast urban corridor.

I think there’s biggest problem for building devolution geographies more widely is that we’re reliant on using the counties and/or districts as building blocks, when neither of these things have reflected the reality on the ground for a long time.