Politics
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- For further details of the parliamentary history of the town see Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)
In the year 1294, Liskeard began to send two members to Parliament, but this was reduced to one by the 1832 Reform Act. The MPs have included Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Isaac Foot.
Liskeard is now part of the South East Cornwall constituency, and is represented by Conservative Sheryll Murray.
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