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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lisa Rand

Southport's political map could be redrawn under boundary changes

Ainsdale could soon be wiped off Southport’s political map when it comes to choosing a new MP.

Under revised plans released by the Boundary Commission, which is carrying out a review into constituency boundaries across the country, Ainsdale would become part of Sefton Central constituency instead of Southport.

The plans were described by Sefton Council’ s Liberal democrat cllr and leader of the opposition, Cllr John Pugh, himself a previous MP in Southport as a “brave new world” where “mathematics has triumphed over community.”

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