This would see Derbyshire merge with districts and boroughs to establish a single-tier authority covering county boundaries, with Derby City Council maintaining its existing boundaries.

Some wards in Mid Derbyshire were part of the West constituency, held since 1986 by Patrick McLoughlin for the Conservatives. The West Derbyshire constituency has been renamed Derbyshire Dales. The ...

We do not yet know where the boundaries would be drawn, but I am told that taking in South Derbyshire, as well as bits of Amber Valley and Erewash, is a popular option that is being considered.

"It's a waste of money and doesn't make sense." That is one particularly unsentimental attitude one Derbyshire MP expressed to me about the county's current patchwork system of local government ...