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17 October 2017

What would boundary changes really mean for the Conservatives?

The actual difference as far as political advantage goes is less than 0.5 per cent.

By Stephen Bush

Will boundary changes do what Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, Owen Smith and Theresa May couldn’t do and get shot of Jeremy Corbyn?

The Boundary Commission has released its revised proposals for the new 600-seater House of Commons, and Corbyn’s Islington North seat is among the casualties – torn asunder between Diane Abbott’s Hackney North, which is reconstituted as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, and Emily Thornberry’s Islington South which is now just Islington.

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