House of Lords Reform and Size of the House of Commons

Part of Speaker’S Statement (Select Committee Chairs) – in the House of Commons at 5:09 pm on 19 October 2016.

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Photo of Stewart Jackson Stewart Jackson Conservative, Peterborough 5:09, 19 October 2016

Did my hon. Friend notice an omission from the witty and erudite speech of Pete Wishart? He had the brass neck to complain about over-representation, but Scottish National party Members, who receive the same salary as English MPs and have Members of the Scottish Parliament in near-coterminous constituencies to take the burden off them, vote against the boundary changes that will ameliorate the situation in which massive electorates in constituencies in England are represented by just one MP.