Plans to create a controversial 'Devonwall' constituency spanning the Devon and Cornwall border and encompassing Bude, Bideford and Launceston, are in tatters after David Cameron lost a Common's vote on boundary changes this afternoon.
The re-drawing of the constituency boundaries across Britain, which would have given the Conservatives an advantage at the next General Election, were dealt a death blow in the Commons after the Liberal Democrats turned on their Conservative coalition colleagues.
MPs voted by 334 to 292, majority 42, to delay the review of the boundaries until 2018 after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg withdrew his party's support for Mr Cameron's plan in retaliation for the failure to make progress on House of Lords reform.
