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28-559: The LCC was established in 1978 to co-ordinate the efforts of the Labour left. As such it was extremely broad including, for instance, members of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy , Labour Briefing , and the fiercely anti- Trotskyist National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS). In 1981, the LCC supported the campaign of Tony Benn against Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of

56-593: Is a group of Labour Party activists campaigning for changes to the constitution of the Labour Party to ensure that Labour MPs and Labour governments enacted policies agreeable to the party membership. It was founded by activists in 1973, with support from about ten Labour MPs, and its first President was Frank Allaun . A leading co-founder was Vladimir Derer , and his house in Golders Green became CLPD's headquarters for about twenty-five years. Amongst

84-440: Is slightly different, with a fixed minimum of 70,583 and a fixed maximum of 80,473. The quota does not apply if the area of a constituency is larger than 12,000 square kilometres (4,630 sq mi) (new Schedule 2, Rule 4(2)). No constituency can be larger than 13,000 square kilometres (5,020 sq mi) (new Schedule 2, Rule 4(1)). Westminster constituencies are usually created by combining entire electoral wards . For

112-761: The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 , which amended the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 . Part II of the Act (henceforth referred to as 'PVSaCA') deals with the amendments to the manner in which House of Commons constituencies are formed by the individual boundary commissions. Each commission was obliged to make a final report to the Secretary of State before 1 October 2013 (by virtue of Section 10, Clause 3, which amends Subsection 2 of Section 3 of

140-550: The sixth review , was an ultimately unfruitful cycle of the process by which constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom are reviewed and redistributed. The four UK boundary commissions carried out their reviews between 2011 and 2013, but their recommendations were not taken up by the government and instead the 2018 periodic review of Westminster constituencies was carried out from 2016 to 2018. That review

168-683: The 1986 Act). Following a debate in the House of Lords on 14 January 2013, the Opposition tabled and voted for an amendment to legislation to postpone the date by which the Review ends, which they passed and sent back to the Commons, on a relatively small 69-vote majority. A Commons vote on 29 January 2013 in agreement meant the review instead began after May 2015 for completion in 2018. The Review had been required for completion by October 2013 under

196-547: The 2013 Review, the Boundary Commission for England said in its newsletter that whilst it had used entire electoral wards in the past, the new legislation and fixed electorate quota made that harder. Therefore, it aimed to use polling districts in circumstances where using entire wards was not possible, and said "it is prepared to take into account as appropriate any new ward boundaries that have been introduced after 6 May 2010". The English Commission outlined that it

224-596: The Boundary Commission for England stated in its 2011 newsletter: "The Commission wishes to make very clear that those with an interest in the review process should understand that the defined number of constituencies and the 5% electoral parity target are statutory requirements that it must apply and that it has absolutely no discretion in respect of either matter." In Great Britain , in this review constituencies could have no less an electorate than 72,810 and no more than 80,473. The quota in Northern Ireland

252-460: The CLPD became the first Labour organisation to call for more representation of women within the party, which eventually led to all-women shortlists to select candidates being adopted in the Labour Party. In 2015, CLPD member Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Leader of the Labour Party , and took forward the CLPD agenda of increasing democracy in the Labour Party by putting forward reforms to increase

280-492: The LCC's principal voice in parliament and Peter Hain was a prominent voice outside Westminster. Cherie Booth was also an active member, serving on the LCC executive. Harriet Harman was also a key member. Under Neil Kinnock 's leadership the LCC became fully engaged in the struggle against Militant and the LCC was broadly supportive of the leadership, though it backed John Prescott 's unsuccessful 1988 challenge to deputy leader Roy Hattersley . The defeat of Militant left

308-571: The May 2015 general election . In January 2013, the Government lost a vote on this timetable, which effectively ended the entire process. The total of 600 constituencies required by the Act were allocated between the four countries of the UK as shown in the table below. The English Boundary Commission then announced that the number of constituencies allocated to England would be sub-divided by region, with

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336-483: The Opposition Ed Miliband ( Doncaster North ) would have seen their seats remain intact with no changes. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg 's seat of Sheffield Hallam would have been altered into the proposed "Sheffield West and Penistone". The Isle of Wight was to be divided into two almost equal halves. The so-called Devonwall constituency, sharing wards between neighbouring Devon and Cornwall,

364-525: The UK, the relevant commission first published "Provisional Proposals", accessible on the Web and viewable at local council offices. There was a twelve-week period from the moment of publication during which the public could comment on the proposals, whether supporting, opposing or suggesting an alternative. During this period, public hearings held across the country allowed those representations to be made in public: all written comments received were made public after

392-1167: The ability of the Party Conference to determine Labour Party policy. Corbyn did not advocate mandatory reselection for Labour MPs during his term as Labour leader – a demand that he, along with Tony Benn and other members of the CLPD, had made in the 1980s – but because of the Conservative government's constituency boundary redrawing , all MPs intending to stand again were due to face reselection by October 2018 anyway. Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The 2013 periodic review of Westminster constituencies , also known as

420-427: The aim of producing "initial proposals in which each constituency is wholly contained within a single region". The seats allocated to each region are also shown below. The four commissions published descriptions of how they would carry out their work, and held meetings with representatives of political parties to explain their approach in the light of the more restrictive rules to which they have to work. For example,

448-611: The bitter struggle of the Clause Four Group with Militant in the student movement. In 1983, the LCC organised a conference, After the Landslide, to examine the lessons from the party's catastrophic defeat of that year: the tone the conference set, that organisational and political modernisation and change were essential, was to become the dominant theme in the party's internal life in the following decade. Robin Cook became

476-486: The changes desired were mandatory reselection of MPs, for the party leader to be elected on a franchise wider than MPs and for the party manifesto to be drafted by the National Executive Committee rather than the parliamentary leadership. Tony Benn was the foremost advocate of CLPD demands. In the late 1970s, CLPD had about 450 members and nearly 300 affiliated organisations. In the 1980s,

504-405: The end of the twelve-week period. The commissions then considered all representations, and the resulting Revised Recommendations were to be published for further public consultation (8 weeks), though without a second public hearing. The commissions would then decide on their final proposals. The Scottish commission gave the following expected timetable for the process which was temporarily halted;

532-410: The group without a real cause and membership began to decline, although it sponsored the launch of a new discussion journal, Renewal , in 1993 and firmly repositioned itself as a group of modernisers rather than on the soft left . In 1998, with New Labour now in power, the LCC voted to wind itself up. Campaign for Labour Party Democracy The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy ( CLPD )

560-480: The party, but many were deeply unhappy with Benn's campaign and approach and the LCC began to evolve into a body aiming to rescue the party from the mess it found itself in as the SDP split and Benn's campaign imprinted an image of extremism in the minds of the voters. The anti-Trotskyism of NOLS was central to this period as they were able to successfully outmanoeuvre the far-left groups, having developed their skills in

588-488: The principles of Section 3 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (themselves loosening previous requirements by instead calling for periodic reviews every eight to twelve years) as left intact by Part 2 of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 . The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 superseded these principles to make an exception for this Review, delaying it until 2018. The original legislation made several significant changes to

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616-424: The size (electorate) of all constituencies must have been within 5% above or below the target number. Increased frequency of reviews: the first review was to be completed by 2013 so that a general election held in 2015 would have been contested on the new boundaries. The legislation required a review every five years after that date, rather than every twelve to fifteen years as previously. To ensure this timetable

644-521: The timings in the three other countries were expected to be similar. The English commission began its public consultations on 11 October 2011 in Manchester, and concluded on 17/18 November in Darlington, and Exeter. The four commissions would have been required to present their reports by October 2013. The government had hoped that the reports would then be approved by Parliament and in place for

672-415: The way constituencies were to be reviewed. Number of constituencies: PVSaCA required there to be exactly six hundred parliamentary constituencies (Schedule 2, clause 1) – a reduction of 50 from the total fought at the 2010 General Election . This is the first time a precise number has been included in legislation. More equal constituencies: with a few specified exceptions for island areas (see below),

700-414: Was "focused on getting all constituencies within the statutory range, rather than as close as possible to the electoral quota figure itself". The Boundary Commission for England released its "Initial Proposals" to the public on 13 September 2011. Their provisional recommendations did not require division of any electoral ward. Amongst the proposals, Prime Minister David Cameron ( Witney ) and Leader of

728-460: Was achievable, the reviews would take place over the whole country simultaneously, rather than being phased over several years as in the past. Four island constituencies are 'protected' by PVSaCA. They are: The four commissions adopted consistent procedures for developing their boundary proposals, starting with simultaneous announcements in March 2011 which began the review process. In each part of

756-405: Was also not implemented and its results were formally laid aside in 2020. The boundary commissions were to take into account revised rules for the number and size (electoral quota) of constituencies. The proposed changes included having a total of 600 seats rather than 650, as agreed by Parliament in 2011 to meet a reformist aim of the 2010–2015 coalition agreement . The process began in 2011 and

784-541: Was intended to be completed by 2013, but a January 2013 vote in the House of Commons stopped the process. The commissions commenced their map-drawing of entirely new boundaries in 2016, before they completed their work in September 2018. The process was launched on 4 March 2011 by the Boundary Commission for England, Boundary Commission for Scotland, Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland and Boundary Commission for Wales. The changes were to be implemented by virtue of

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