Sir James Cleverly

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 January 2026

Debate

Local Elections: Cancellation

Contribution

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister referred earlier, and did so again in her final comments, to the cancellation or delay of the 2020 local government elections as being justified by the reorganisation of local government. That is a factual error; they were, quite unambiguously, delayed because we were in the middle of a global pandemic. How is it best to correct the record with regard to the reason those elections were delayed?

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