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Outgoing MP Gordon Henderson says he regrets being unable to act quickly enough to address the long-standing problems afflicting schooling on Sheppey. The Tory was talking about his 14 years in Parliament on the Kent Politics Podcast and was asked if he’d had unlimited power and money what he would have done differently. “If I had the power and the money, I would have changed the system of education on the Island a lot sooner than I was able to,” he said. As previously reported, academy chain Oasis ended its contract to run the secondary school last year, leading to a plan for two new trusts t…

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