Is this a fair redundancy selection?

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Hi,
I found out last week that I’m at risk of redundancy. My office has to go through collective consultation as they’re making half the company redundant so I’m in a pool with other people that shares my job title. We’re going from 4 to 2, however, my line manager who is at risk of losing his job (2 managers are being reduced to 1) has been told he can be considered for my pool but he has to opt out of his manager pool so my pool would become 5 of us going for 2 positions.
My question is if that is legal. Could I be made redundant because my line manager is taking my job? I understand if the role isn’t needed anymore then that’s fair but they would be giving someone else my role and making me redundant instead.
I’m having my first consultation meeting on Wednesday so I want to make sure I’m raising relevant points.
Thanks in advance.
I found out last week that I’m at risk of redundancy. My office has to go through collective consultation as they’re making half the company redundant so I’m in a pool with other people that shares my job title. We’re going from 4 to 2, however, my line manager who is at risk of losing his job (2 managers are being reduced to 1) has been told he can be considered for my pool but he has to opt out of his manager pool so my pool would become 5 of us going for 2 positions.
My question is if that is legal. Could I be made redundant because my line manager is taking my job? I understand if the role isn’t needed anymore then that’s fair but they would be giving someone else my role and making me redundant instead.
I’m having my first consultation meeting on Wednesday so I want to make sure I’m raising relevant points.
Thanks in advance.
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So my next question is to be with me being told I could be considered for the position of someone lower than me (so bumping) but I have to opt out of my current consultation group and join the other one, and I have to decide in 72 hours. Bearing in mind there selection criteria being used for my current role isn’t confirmed yet, nor is the criteria for the role I would be bumped to. Is it fair for them to pressure me to potentially opt out when there’s no confirmation on selection criteria yet?
The writing is on the wall that there is some preselection going on with moving the manager down.
Consultation is two ways.
I would want to be included in all pools for my current position AND all suitable alternative should I be unsuccessful retaining my position
No reason not to do selection simultaneously and once all ranked the jobs get given out in order once you have a job you get taken off all the other lists.
Could counter propose that they should use a top down approach and those that fail in a higher pool to retain their jobs get put in the pools for any other suitable alternatives.