Nigel Farage has said Britain is turning into a “banana republic” as Labour prepares to delay local council elections again until 2027 for millions of voters. The Mail has the story.
Ministers said they were asking 63 local authorities across England whether they want to postpone contests scheduled for May next year until 2027.
Some council leaders were said to have expressed fears that holding elections in 2026 could derail their efforts to deliver Labour’s reorganisation of local government.
The latest YouGov opinion poll on Westminster voting intention, published this week, showed Reform with a 10 percentage point lead over Labour, with the Tories and Greens a point further behind.
There is growing speculation that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will face a leadership challenge if Labour suffers a disastrous set of results in May’s local elections in England, as well as contests in Scotland and Wales.
Mr Farage said: ‘Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. Tory county councils look set to collude with Labour to keep their control until 2027.’
He added that ‘only a banana republic bans elections’ as he called on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to ‘instruct her council leaders to allow elections to go ahead’.
Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, also expressed his anger at the prospect of local elections being suspended once more.
He said: ‘This is looking like yet another Labour and Conservative stitch-up to deny people their votes in May.
‘Kemi Badenoch must stop her Conservative council leaders from delaying elections yet again just because they are running scared of the Liberal Democrats.’
Senior Tory MP Sir James Cleverly, the shadow local government secretary, noted how ministers recently said they intended for all elections set for May 2026 to go ahead.
He said: ‘Labour promised council elections would go ahead as planned as recently as last week. Now they’re saying they won’t. Another broken promise.
‘Voters will now be denied the right to elect their own representatives – and not for the first time under this Labour Government.
‘Labour are scared of the voters. They thought they could completely overhaul local government and stack the deck in their favour. They were wrong.’
Sir James added it ‘cannot be right’ that some councillors might now serve seven-year terms.
‘The Electoral Commission warned the Government that elections should not be delayed by more than a year, but that has clearly fallen on deaf ears,’ he continued.
‘Labour pushed these changes through at an unrealistic pace and are now blaming local leaders for not being ready.’
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