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Baroness Pinnock (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 March 2025

Debate

Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the Minister for a very detailed response putting the case, which she did very strongly, for the reasons behind the curtailment of elections this May. She has not, unfortunately, explained why those elections could not have been delayed until June. That has happened before. I am a councillor, and I remember voting in June for local elections to coincide with European elections. They could have been delayed to June, and that would have enabled those councils to have an up-to-date mandate to make those changes. That is at the heart of my concerns: 5.6 million people will not be able to vote this May in order to have their say on fundamental changes to local government. On a happy note, we will need to have more controversial debates about local government. I have never seen so many people in this House wanting to be involved with local government, which I applaud. On that basis, I wish to test the opinion of the House.

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