Tomorrow is the last day for suggesting new ward boundaries in Brent to the Local Government Commission for Boundaries in England (LGCBE). This is quite different to the parliamentary process and relates only to local government wards. It is triggered by the population growth which has now made the Borough seriously uneven in electoral equality.
Back in July, without perhaps realising quite what they were doing, the councillors agreed that the Borough should have no more than 57 councillors to represent it. Only in the last couple of weeks have some councillors apparently realised that this whole process is guaranteed to drastically change all the wards in Brent. There has therefore been a flurry of interest ending in the GP Committee on Wednesday deciding not make a submission as the matter was too controversal.
That makes Brent an unusual Borough.
The political parties, and anyone else, can still make their own contributions of course.
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