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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The hon. Gentleman is right: I am referring to Stafford Cripps. The book is not one that is available in all good bookshops, but there is a copy in the Library should any hon. Member wish to read it. I want to end with the words of Jim Callaghan, a former Prime Minister and a Member who represented south Wales:"““Constituencies are not merely areas bounded by a line on a map; they are living communities with a unity, a history and a personality of their own.””—[Official Report, 19 June 1969; Vol. 785, c. 742.]" That has always been how we have done things in this House and in this country, and I believe that it is how we should continue to do them in future. That is why I have moved this amendment, and why I hope that we will not reduce the number of seats from 650 to a fixed number of 600.