Pat - seat changes unlikely to go ahead
A Black Country MP has insisted there is 'no great public demand' for changes to electoral constituency boundaries.
Pat McFadden said he believed it was unlikely that plans to reduce the number of parliamentary seats from 650 to 600 may never go ahead.
His comments came after the Boundary Commission released its latest plans to carve up the face of Britain's current constituencies.
Wolverhampton South East's Labour MP, said: "This is the fourth time in the last seven years that new boundary maps have been produced.
"I don't see any great public demand for it. It may well be that these proposals never go ahead."
Nationally the proposed changes will leave a number of big hitters fighting for new seats.
They include Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn whose Islington North seat would cease to exist.
A new seat called simply Islington would be created - largely based on the current constituency of Islington South & Finsbury - which is held by his shadow cabinet colleague Emily Thornberry.
More than 250 constituencies have been revised since the commission released its initial proposals in September 2016.
Despite the review taking years and costing £5million, there are doubts over whether it will ever be made law after reports the Tories' DUP allies would oppose it in a final vote.
There is theoretically set to be a vote on the plans after the Boundary Commission makes its final recommendations in September 2018.
However, the law only requires ministers to enact the recommendations 'as soon as may be' - and doesn't set a timescale.
