Dai Cameron has this week been promising to cut the number of Welsh MPs by up to 10. Considering Wales has only 40 MPs at the moment out of 646, this just cannot be a good thing, especially with the Welsh Affairs Committee's new burden of debating LCOs.
My view however is that the number should be cut as and when the Welsh Assembly gains strong fiscal autonomy and not before. Cutting the numbers too prematurely, regardless of making the system more fair or otherwise, would give the nationalists another bone to chew on. That is never a good idea.
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