Former Chief Whip Nick Brown MP, as quoted by the Newcastle Journal on the proposed boundary changes:
“At first sight, it looks like it has been done by a monkey on acid.”
Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
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