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"Lewis Baston has been Senior Research Fellow at Democratic Audit since July 2010. His principal areas of expertise are electoral systems, constitutional reform, the history of elections, boundaries and redistricting and devolution. Before joining Democratic Audit Lewis was Director of Research at the Electoral Reform Society and had worked at ERS since 2003. From 1998 to 2002 he was a research fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Society and Politics (CUSP) at Kingston University. His work for Democratic Audit since 2010 has involved a number of research reports on reducing the number of MPs (with Stuart Wilks-Heeg), 'equalising’ constituency size, and modelling new boundaries using the government’s proposed rules."

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Not rabid, extremist, Nationalists then!

Yes Graham it is a long drawn out procedure. What will be best in the long run for Cornwall remains to be seen, 5 or 6 MPs is neither here nor there for some, and others it is mainly their pride.