Ministers urged to ditch plans to cut number of MPs by 50

Government does not have parliamentary support for revised boundary changes, which would boost Tory election win chances, say Labour and Lib Dems

A new map of MPs’ constituencies produced by the boundary commissions for England, Scotland and Wales would boost the Conservative party’s chances of winning an election and do away with Jeremy Corbyn’s north London constituency seat.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have called on ministers to abandon plans to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600, saying the government does not have enough Commons support to pass the revised boundary changes.

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