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Reform Can Challenge Starmer’s Cancellation of Elections, Judge Rules

January 21, 2026 GOVERNMENT, Spotlight, Tyranny 0

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ER Editor: Yet another political drama you couldn’t predict. Starmer (v2.0) has threatened to cancel elections in May of this year in up to 63 local councils. Who ever does this? Farage can now come to the rescue in a legal challenge that he threatened back in December. See this from Unlock Democracy —

Which local elections are being cancelled in May 2026?

The Government has announced that it may cancel elections in 63 local authorities in May 2026.

Governments shouldn’t be able to cancel elections like this.

To many, it looks like they are trying to avoid potentially embarrassing election defeats.

What the Government has done so far is write to Council Leaders asking them if they want elections to go ahead in their area.

A reminder from December —

It’s just amazing to us how obvious this all is, yet people buy it as real —

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Reform Can Challenge Starmer’s Cancellation of Elections, Judge Rules

WILL JONES for DAILY SCEPTIC

Reform can challenge Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to cancel some local elections in May amid public disquiet over the threat to democracy, a High Court judge has ruled. The Telegraph has more.

In a ruling at the High Court, Mr Justice Chamberlain cleared the way for Nigel Farage’s party to go ahead with the next stage of a legal case against the Government.

 

Sir Keir was preparing to postpone polls for thousands of voters using an obscure clause in the 2000 Local Government Act. Labour faced a potential wipe-out if elections in their areas were to go ahead.

The Telegraph’s Campaign for Democracy has called for the clause to be scrapped and for ministers to seek a full Parliamentary vote for any delays.

The legal challenge was brought earlier this month by Reform UK against the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The Telegraph understands there will now be a full hearing on the issue on February 19th and February 20th.

The Government claimed that it needed to give some councils the option of delaying elections because they are facing major restructuring under a programme to abolish some district councils and introduce mayoralties.

However, the Electoral Commission, the independent watchdog, has suggested this does not constitute the sort of “exceptional circumstance” that would justify postponement.

Zia Yusuf, Reform’s Head of Policy, welcomed the news that the High Court “temporarily halted” Starmer’s party from making any changes to election dates.

He added: “Reform will defend democracy against this authoritarian government and its Tory enablers. Let the people vote.”

Almost four million people across the south and east of England could be denied a vote as a result of Labour’s attempt to cancel elections.

Twenty-eight councils applied to postpone the elections, scheduled for May, with 22 of them being Labour-run.

On Tuesday, Darren Jones, the Prime Minister’s Chief Secretary, suggested it would be too “costly” for the elections to go ahead.

If residents were to vote in the May elections, Mr Jones said they would have to “redo it five minutes later” because of the reorganisation of councils, which would waste resources.

He told LBC: “We’re not frightened of democracy. Councils themselves were able to request a delay, a short delay, to their elections, if they’re going through a reorganisation. And a number of councils have asked for that.”

Worth reading in full.

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