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Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

I am listening carefully to the points the hon. Gentleman is making powerfully, but does he not accept that with our parliamentary system, in which the governing party will normally have an overall majority, this is the reverse of that? It is moving power away from the Government-controlled House of Commons and giving it to an independent Boundary Commission. Personally, I have

confidence in it: I have not had problems with its proposals in the past, even when they have disadvantaged my party.