Petition Reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons to 450 members

There are currently 650 constituencies, each sending one MP to the House of Commons, corresponding to approximately one for every 100,000 people, or one for every 70,000 parliamentary electors.
Time to modernise the House of Commons given this new age of technology and communication.

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The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2018 is £77,379.
MPs also receive expenses to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, having somewhere to live in London or their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 12 September 2019
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