Corbyn said he was “very unhappy” about boundary changes which could affect his constituency in North London.
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The new electoral areas will be contested in the 2020 election using the 2015 electoral roll figures.
Five of Ms Abbott’s wards – Cazenove, Hackney Downs, Lea Bridge, Shacklewell and Springfield – will go to the new Hackney Central seat, with the other five – Brownswood, Clissold, Stamford Hill West, Stoke Newington and Woodberry Down – being consumed by the creation of Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington. Additionally Ex-Chancellor George Osborne’s seat is to be axed, which might bring a crumb of comfort to Labour supporters who feel they are being marginalised by these changes. He has also called a Corybn supporter an “entryist”, again on Twitter, and wrote: “Corbynistas, Momentum (a left-wing campaign group) and the rest of the hard-left: get out of the people’s party”.
But this potential set of circumstances would have a knock-on effect on other Labour MPs locally including Meg Hillier.
Labour has dismissed the move as “gerrymandering” because the party is expected to lose up to 30 of the 50 seats being axed.
Corbyn’s leadership rival Owen Smith, meanwhile, sees his Pontypridd seat merged with the neighbouring Cynon Valley constituency of veteran backbencher Ann Clwyd.
The Boundary Commission declined to comment on the report by the Evening Standard. Plans for Scotland are due to be published on October 20.
The Boundary Commission for England said government legislation required it to use the December 2015 data and with four exceptions, every seat in the United Kingdom will have no fewer than 71,031 and no more than 78,507 electors. At the moment, seats range in size from around 21,000 to 110,000 voters.
Croydon’s only Labour MP has lashed out at proposed changes to the borough’s electoral landscape, which he claims would “entrench” Conservative MPs in two out of three parliamentary seats.
Neither of the sitting Labour MPs are likely to be troubled by the changes. Critics warn that this excludes up to two million who signed up to vote in the European Union referendum.
The Conservative government attempted to reform constituency boundaries after being elected in 2010 but were prevented from doing so by their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats. Labour MP Jon Ashworth said it was an “affront to democracy”, adding: “It’s about the Tories trying to gerrymander the system to benefit themselves”.
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Labour shadow minister Jon Ashworth described the changes as “unfair, undemocratic and unacceptable”, adding: “They are based on an out-of-date version of the electoral register with almost two million voters missing”. “The commission must rethink and ensure that no elector loses out”.
