BARNSLEY would be represented by six different MPs under a major shake-up of constituency boundaries.
Proposals drawn up by the Boundary Commission for England are part of reforms to shrink the number of MPs from 650 to 600 and even-out the boundaries so each constituency has a similar population.
The changes would see the 21 Barnsley wards carved up between six different parliamentary constituencies.
Barnsley Central MP Dan Jarvis says the proposals are ‘unfair and undemocratic’ given that nationally MPs would be slimmed down but the House of Lords fattened up.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
