What are the repercussions of redrawing the UK’s political map?

Safe seats turned into marginals as boundary changes risk stoking regional resentment and testing party loyalties

Dominic Raab
Dominic Raab now faces a tough re-election contest
(Image credit: Peter Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images))

Cabinet ministers Ben Wallace and Dominic Raab face tough re-election contests after new boundary changes unveiled this week turned their constituencies into battleground marginals.

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