Reform blasts Labour for delaying mayoral elections |
Well, well, well. Labour’s decision to cancel four mayoral elections by two years is not going down well, to put it lightly. The government has pushed back elections due to take place in May – in Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk – until 2028. Sir Keir Starmer’s crowd has blamed the delay on local authorities needing more time to merge, in a bid to give regions more power. But the........