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Chris Rennard backs move to kill off, not just delay, boundary changes

Politics Home reports:

Labour peer Lord Hart has just tabled an amendment to the Electoral Registration Bill which would have another major impact on the timetable of the Coalition’s plans to cut seat numbers.

The amendment, which seeks to amend a clause in Section 10 of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, declares that the Boundary Commissions reviews will not take place until….2018. Yes, you read that right, 2018.

The move is Labour’s attempt to get certainty for the whole PPC selection process and crucially means that a whole cycle of boundary reviews is killed off (as opposed to getting it in place after 2015)…

The amendment (which will appear tomorrow on the Order Paper) has not just Labour signatories. It has also been signed by Plaid peer Lord Wigley…and Liberal Democrat heavyweight Lord Rennard.

UPDATE: Lords boundary vote delayed ‘indefinitely’.

One response to “Chris Rennard backs move to kill off, not just delay, boundary changes”

  1. I fail to see why we should have fewer, larger constituencies and therefore a poorer service from our MPs. In the absence of PR the essential thing is that every constituency should contain as far as possible the same number of potential voters. If that means that the Isle of Wight would have to be joined with an adjacent portion of the mainland, so be it.

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