It could completely change the way people look at Leeds and Wakefield
It is proposed Outwood comes under Wakefield, while a new Morley constituency would take in the Leeds wards of Farnley and Wortley. Commissioners recommend that Horbury, Ossett, Wakefield South and Wakefield Rural wards be grouped with Denby Dale and Kirkburton, in neighbouring Kirklees, to create the cross-border Wakefield West and Denby Dale constituency.
Elsewhere in the district, it is proposed that Normanton should be merged with Hemsworth. The change would mean Labour’s Yvette Cooper’s constituency would return to being called Pontefract and Castleford.
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