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 government’s opponents are rather unhappy about the palaver…

Reform UK has called an emergency press conference today to discuss the changes, with leader Nigel Farage saying: ‘The whole local government reorganisation is a dog’s dinner.’ Deputy leader Richard Tice accused Labour of a ‘dictatorial cancelling of democracy’, telling the Beeb’s Today programme:

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