THE electoral safety of the country’s only Green MP looked more secure yesterday after proposed alterations to constituency boundaries were changed.

In initial proposals from the Boundary Commission - which is redrawing Britain’s electoral map - released last year, Caroline Lucas’s central Brighton seat looked set to lose large numbers of Green voters in south central Brighton.

But amended plans released yesterday would instead keep the St Peter’s And North Laine ward - which elected a clean sweep of three Green councillors to Brighton and Hove City Council - in the redrawn Pavilion seat.

It would also extend the seat further eastwards, incorporating Moulsecoomb and Bevendean, but the Regency ward would still move into the seat further west.

Ms Lucas said: “The latest version of the boundary review is certainly an improvement on the last iteration.

“Though I believe it is wrong that my constituency loses its access to the sea, it is good to see the distinction between Brighton and Hove retained.

“I still believe that plans to reduce the number of MPs is unnecessary at best, and anti-democratic at worst - and while we keep our outdated electoral system it strikes me that this kind of tinkering will always be destined to fail the people of this country.”

In the west of the city, the Hove seat would be renamed Hove and Regency and would, according to yesterday’s plans, include Regency ward (a Green stronghold at council level).

The latest plans withdraw the idea of cutting Hove Park out of the Hove constituency, which leaves Peter Kyle MP, Labour, with a large swathe of Tory voters in his seat - although he won June’s election with a majority of more than 18,000 votes.

Mr Kyle said: “The latest round of proposed changes to constituencies is less radical for our city, but further underlines what a monumental waste of time and money this whole process is.

“There’s no way Theresa May will have the stomach to drive this through parliament now she has lost her majority and the respect of even her own MPs.

“Just like her Brexit negotiations, all this effort will take us nowhere”

He added he “would not rest” until Portslade was incorporated into the constituency name,

In East Brighton, the original proposals were most far-reaching geographically, adding swathes of Tory-voting coastal east Sussex to Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s seat which would now run almost all the way to Eastbourne.

The revised plans would now leave Woodingdean in the seat, which would extend as far as Seaford, but remove half of Newhaven.

Mr Loyd Russel-Moyle said: “My view is that Seaford has more in common with Polegate and Uckfield”. He suggested the boundary changes should incorporate the town of Lewes in his seat but not extend it so far eastwards.

“My view is we should have a Kemptown and Lewes constituency, as the Commission originally proposed in 2012 but then it changed its mind.” But he said he would be “delighted” to represent “the good people of Seaford” should the changes go ahead, and should he run and win.

The Boundary Commission’s remit includes the reduction of the number of seats from 650 to 600, but many analysts have predicted the plans will not now come to a vote in the House of Commons.

Large numbers of Opposition MPs are mobilising against the changes, and more pertinently to Theresa May’s minority government, the changes might affect the balance of power in Ulster.

This would be unacceptable to the DUP, whose twelve MPs prop up the Conservatives in Parliament, so experts predict the plans may be shelved altogether.

Details are available at www.bce2018.org.uk and the public consultation on this round of the plans is open until December 11.