LOCAL politicians have reacted with fury to Boundary Commission plans to slash the number of councillors in Cornwall by nearly a third.

The chair of Cornwall’s electoral review panel called plans to cut the number of councillors by 36 from 123 to 87 a ‘very sad day for the representation of local people in Cornwall’.

Former councillor Jim Candy, who campaigned about the re-drawing of the county’s electoral boundaries, said the decision was ‘a severe erosion of democracy.’

And Mebyon Kernow said the move would ‘further increase the democratic deficit from which Cornwall already suffers’.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s decided to introduce the cut from the 2021 local election.

We’ll have more on this in Friday’s new print edition of the Cornish Times.