The noble Lord, Lord Reid, sets up and explains the competing issues quite succinctly. I am trying to argue that the present arrangements have at their core a rule that states that constituencies should keep as close as possible to the electoral quota, but then import other rules that, as we can see by the outcome, drag them further away from that electoral quota and lead—
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
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Lord Wallace of Tankerness
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 18 January 2011.
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Debate on bills on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
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