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Is the UK's next general election rigged in favour of the Tories?

Ruth Tarrant

3rd March 2016

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With changes afoot in terms of boundaries (equalising the size of constituencies and reducing the number of MPs to 600) and reductions in the amount of money provided to the Opposition ("Short money"), as well as changes from Household to Individual Voter Registration, many political analysts believe that this is a recipe for disaster for Labour's performance in the next general election.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.