Digest opened free editor
Rola Khaleda, FT editor, chooses her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.
Local elections will be delayed for more than 5 million voters throughout England for a year as the government reforms the councils, in a move that would limit the ability of the Popular Reform Party to gain land.
East Sussex, West Sussex, Esex, Thorok, Hampsheer, White Island, Norfolk, Sofolk and Sari are all their polls while developing detailed plans for the new authorities, the ministers announced on Wednesday.
This step is part of the Labor Party government plans for the largest depiction of the local government in 50 years, including moves to make more transition.
The resulting delay will mean approximately 350 conservative advisers in the stage for an additional year before they face opinion polls, along with fewer liberal democratic workers and politicians.
“I thought only the dictators canceled the elections, but what I see today is the collusion to overcome The threat of reform in the United KingdomThe leader of the Reform Party, Nigel Faraj, said.
He added: “We are angry that 5.5 million people in this country are deprived of their vote.” He said he felt special from Essex and Norfolk, as he believed that reform in the UK would work well.
The elections are delayed to give time to prepare new large councils.
Farraj said that the reform will stand on the candidates in each of about 1500 seats that will be competed in May, and he still hopes that the party will win up to 200 seats.
While the five largest political parties in Britain will see all the members of the advisers who are waiting for another year before the elections, the Conservative Party is the largest beneficiary of Wednesday's decision.
In a total of 347 conservative advisers, he will avoid facing voters this year as a result of the plan of the Labor Party, which was welcomed by some of the Conservative Party officials as their party fails to work and reform in the polls.
“In the short term, it is seats to lose, to be honest. One of them said:” It is decreased. “
However, the shadow minister, Kevin Holinneri, said: “I don't think it is useful to delay democracy – I think it creates all kinds of feelings.”
He insisted that his party was “for fighting” in all seats, noting that the Conservative Party has acquired seats in the council in a set of sub -elections for the modern local authority, while the Labor Party lost net.
Tim Bell, professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London, reduced the potential benefits of the conservatives: “He will not do any preferences unless one expected the reform vehicle to stop.”
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rainer He said that this step was part of a “transfer revolution” that would save money by creating larger and more efficient councils.
Six new groups of councils confirmed on a “priority” list of authorization deals: Cumbria, Cheshire, Warrington, Norfolk, Suffolk, Greater Essex, Sussex, Brighton, Hampshire and Solent.
Under plans, the ministers intend to cancel all 164 provinces councils and create new one -class authorities of about 500,000 people instead.
The provinces councils were asked in December to submit initial proposals on the geographical areas of such a step, including any requests to delay the elections while establishing the new authorities.
Rainer said that she rejected half of these requests, but added that the Labor Party “was not in the field of elections for bodies that do not exist and where we do not know what will replace them.”
She said: “This will be an expensive waste and irresponsible for taxpayers' money.”
But the provincial councils network, the sector of the sector, said that the delay had reached “the abolition of democracy.”
“The crazy time scale through the major councils will not benefit from the consultants-they are on a field day because the councils do not have a great ability to do the required work in the time required by the government.”
There was also discomfort in the ranks of this step.
“I am not sure that they thought about this,” said one of the senior party officials.
The official said: “People are angry at that – and they are unlikely to carry out a campaign, or at least a difficult campaign, for the party after their roles were canceled.”
Holinerck of the Conservative Party said that the reorganization had “rushed greatly” and warned that there was no “attempt” to search for consensus on the ground.
“The locals have not been consulted,” he said. “The Leaders of the Council have” a weapon for their head “from the government of the Labor Party.”
