Has Nick Clegg asked the MPs for Montgomeryshire and Orkney & Shetland what they think about reducing the number of parliamentary constituencies to 500?
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Has Nick Clegg asked the MPs for Montgomeryshire and Orkney & Shetland what they think about reducing the number of parliamentary constituencies to 500?
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Presumably they would be defended on some dubious basis or other. Like how Alliance plans for PR included keeping certain extremely rural areas as FPTP… the Alliance held all but two of them at the time IIRC.
Reducing the number of constituencies means reducing the number of MPs. That will lead to a smaller proportion (and number) of MPs being genuine backbenchers, because it is unlikely that the number of ministers, whips and PPS will reduce nor their shadows. What that means is an enfeebling of Parliament in holding accountable the executive.
It’s also a Tory policy
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