The claim
Claims have circulated online that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will scrap next year’s local elections. One of the claims said this was the first time this has happened since the Second World War.
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A new Government white paper includes plans to restructure some local government in England. To aid in this process it is possible that local elections could be postponed. The reforms will likely merge some councils into larger bodies, which will lead to fewer separate elections. Such mergers have happened many times in the past and elections have been postponed as a result.
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