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Originally Posted by rjt
I think we also need to look at constituency boundaries, it cannot be right that a party could hold power if 3% behind in the popular vote.
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Yes, should the Conservatives get back with a majority of their own at the next General Election, one of their key priorities must be to activate a full and proper constituency boundary review.
Electoral boundaries being favourable to Labour is nothing new - Callaghan (the former Labour Prime Minister who lost to Conservative Mrs. Thatcher in 1979) allegedly avoided implementing the recommendations of the Boundary Commission (which would have got rid of small but strongly pro-Labour constituencies) before the 1979 General Election. Had the boundary changes gone through while he was still Prime Minister they would have helped make the Conservative Parliamentary majority in 1979 even larger.
Europhile 'Conservative' John Major is allegedly responsible for not stopping changes to constituency boundaries in the early 1990's which have been beneficial to Labour.