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As it's acquired a political week this week, I can see Rachel smiling. Yes, I did go away

for the autumn statement and came back for the first quiet week. Sorry, we thought we'd

sort of zero in on something a bit geekier, but very important, which is the boundary review.

We've had the same constituency boundaries now since 2010 for all the parliamentary elections,

and boundary commissions just seem to be that thing that never happens. In 2013 and 2018,

they were supposed to go through, but they never did. It's been like this mythical land that all

of parliament is the parallel universe that we can never quite reach. The boundary review will

happen some day soon, but yeah, it's kind of it's on now, and we know where all of the new boundaries

are probably likely to be. We're starting to get a feel for where all the bun fights that are

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