The proposed parliamentary boundary changes for England create multiple complications. But what the political world wants to know most of all is, who benefits?
The existing boundaries feature many Labour seats with too few voters (a bias the Conservatives have long complained of) that were in need of either reconfiguration or removal altogether. But following the collapse of the so-called Red Wall seats in the north and Midlands, the issue of sparsely populated Labour constituencies is less pressing for the Tories than it was in the past. As such, the proposed boundary changes will not benefit the Conservatives as much as previous reviews have done.
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