MERSEYSIDE will lose a further two MPs under the government’s plans to slash the number of Westminster seats, a Daily post analysis has revealed.

The region will be among the victims of controversial proposals to create constituencies of equal size – and save taxpayers £12m a year – because it has many seats with relatively small electoral rolls.

One seat would be certain to disappear in Wirral, which has only 240,000 registered voters – only slightly more than enough for three seats of the new proposed size of around 76,000.

Similarly, Liverpool would probably boast just four MPs, rather than a fifth constituency – Garston and Halewood – that currently stretches into Knowsley borough.

A further seat could be lost in North Cheshire, where there are only enough voters, around 555,000, for just over seven seats of the new likely size.

The analysis is likely to increase Labour suspicions that the changes are an attempt to increase the chances of a Conservative victory at the next general election.

David Cameron has pushed hard for a cut in the number of MPs, from 659 to 600, as part of a deal delivering Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg a referendum on changing the voting system.

Both Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg have argued it is wrong for some seats to have 20,000 more voters than others - and that are simply too many MPs for a country of Britain’s size.

But Labour has accused the government of “gerrymandering”, questioning the reduction and furious there will be no prior attempt to register 3.5m “lost” voters – mainly in poorer, Labour areas.