My provisional view is that the council was engaged in…

My provisional view is that the council was engaged in gerrymandering, which I am minded to find is a disgraceful and improper purpose and not a purpose for which a local authority may act.

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Andrew Hosken, “Nothing Like a Dame” (Granta Books, 2006), p. 312.. John Magill, District Auditor of the City of Westminster, announcing his preliminary findings of an Audit into the accounts of the City for 1986/87 at a press conference on 13 January 1994. The House of Lords upheld the final Audit findings in 2001.

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