[4][5] In 2004, the Conservative constituency association, then the richest in the country, deselected Hawkins for the next election, following accusations of racism, in the hope of obtaining an MP of cabinet calibre.

To partly compensate, the two villages (and one-member Guildford Council wards) of Normandy and Pirbright were transferred into the Surrey Heath seat from the Woking constituency.

[11] The area is well connected to London Heathrow Airport, IT, telecommunications and logistics centres of the M3 and M4 corridors, and to the military towns of Aldershot and Sandhurst.

Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.

YouGov polling by Focaldata suggested that support for Remain rose from its 48% level in the 2016 Referendum to 50.2% in August 2018 (during the Brexit ‘impasse’ in Parliament).