The general election will be fought without long-promised boundary changes intended to cut the number of MPs in the House of Commons coming into force.

MPs had been expected to approve changes to the size of the House of Commons in September this year ahead of their introduction ahead of the expected 2020 election.

The changes would have cut the number of MPs to 600 and ensured that all constituencies broadly have the same number of constituents in each one.

However the early election means that the changes will have reintroduced after the election and introduced at the 2022 election, or dropped altogether.