Constituency Review Hits LibDems

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laresSun 05/06/11 23:36

"When the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, agreed to the biggest review of constituency boundaries since the 1950s, it was in exchange for his party's prized goal of electoral reform. Both issues sit side by side in the coalition agreement and are locked together in the legislation.

Now Clegg, the biggest loser of the alternative vote referendum, hammered in the local elections and beleaguered in the polls, must implement a policy which, according to a new model of how the boundary review will play out, could lose the Lib Dems a quarter of their seats.

He might not be the only loser. Analysis presented on Monday by Democratic Audit at the University of Liverpool suggests the reforms, which will abolish 50 seats, fail to achieve even the Conservatives most basic goal. Their lead over Labour could remain all but unchanged."

"Lord Tyler, the Lib Dem constitution spokesman in the Lords, said the coalition leadership had failed to spot the scale of problems that all parties faced in the boundary review."

"At one point, a Conservative involved in managing the whole process raised the example of former Labour prime minister Jim Callaghan who, as home secretary, presided over a mammoth boundary redrawing exercise only to order Labour to vote it down when put before MPs. When asked if this would be an option, the Tory said emphatically not.

Lord Tyler believes the situation is so serious it could end up with a cross-party move to delay the reforms until the 2020 election, the first time the Lib Dems would have collectively strayed from the coalition agreement."

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