Conservatives climb down over boundary changes
I’d commented before on the oddity that was the Conservative Party’s insistence it would select candidates for the 2015 general election on the basis of the now still-born new constituencies, thereby gifting a significant campaigning advantage to other parties.
No more. The Conservatives have seen sense and, despite David Cameron’s talk of pressing ahead and hoping to win a vote to get the new boundaries in place, the party organisation has instead accepted reality and is selecting candidates on the existing boundaries.
So does this mean that we can now assume with a great deal of confidence that the next election will be held on May 7th 2015 and be based on a House of 650 members (winning line 326 seats)?