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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The Minister was answering a point that I made in my speech. I should like him to help me a little more. What I said was that once the Liberal Democrats’ figure was not there, you had the figure of 585, which the Conservative Party had gone to the election with. They must have done a calculation about how equal they wanted their votes to be. I can’t do the maths—it is too late for me to do that, if I ever could. The Minister has not answered my question. Why did they not stick to 585? We would all understand it if they had stuck to 585.