There is no hope of a deal on the Tory boundary bonus in exchange for state funding of parties

There is no hope of a deal on the Tory boundary bonus in exchange for state funding of parties

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Tomorrow’s proposals will not be implemented

If the Tory back-bench rebellion on Lords reform had not happened in July then tomorrow would have been a big day for election watchers because of the publication of the revised electoral map for England.

Rallings & Thrasher, Anthony Wells and others would have been going through the refined proposals to produce new projections of the impact of the plan. No doubt work will still be done but without the same urgency or expectation that these are going to be implemented.

    The main interest now is what might have been – whether the initial projection of 20 seat bonus for the Conservatives will need to be reduced or increased.

There is still talk, generated by the Grant Shapps/Michael Green appearance the Sunday Politics yesterday in which he said that he had not given up hope.

In the FT this morning there’s further speculation that the plans might still happen in exchange for a deal on the state funding of political parties. This prompted these Tweets overnight from Olly Grender.

Olly, who has been working very closely with Clegg, is pretty conclusive in her view.

Mike Smithson

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