Opposition parties say Labour is ‘running scared’ after 29 English councils postpone elections amid local government ...

The government is to postpone a fifth of English council elections that were supposed to take place this May.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has launched a legal challenge against the government over local election delays, telling the High Court postponement risks undermining campaigns to run councils.

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is set to shake up local politics so comprehensively that Peterborough City Council (PCC) will soon cease to exist in the form we know it today.