Keir Starmer has been slammed after cancelling some elections next year (Image: Getty)
Nigel Farage has torn into the Prime Minister after it emerged this morning some crucial local elections will now net be held next year.
He added that Labour has imported the US Democrats’ doctrine of claiming their opponents are a threat to democracy.
He blasted: “The two old parties’ century-long stranglehold on British politics is breaking and they are terrified.
“Their day of reckoning is fast approaching.”
It’s understood that some local elections will now no longer take place in May 2025 as originally scheduled, but instead be delayed until 2026 or 2027.
All 21 county councils have been asked to send in restructuring plans by mid-January. Reform UK is now running a social media graphic accusing Labour of wanting “to silence you”.
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has been branded a ‘terrified dictator’ by Reform UK, after the government intervened to stop some local elections next year.
Reform had been hungrily preparing for the next major electoral test, however local government reforms now mean they may not take place until 2027.
Jim McMahon, a senior Local Government minister, said councils that are being merged or abolished could “hold off” elections until the reforms are complete.
LBC has reported that the Government is looking to scrap elections in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire and Sussex – all areas Reform would have been hoping to make big gains.
erupted that cancelling elections “in some areas of the country where Reform are gaining momentum is the act of a desperate government.”
A new Reform UK social media graphic (Image: Reform UK)
“They have the audacity to call us a “threat to democracy” whilst they act like third world dictators.”
Yesterday Labour grandee Harriet Harman claimed that Mr Farage’s party is “not just a threat to individual parties, but a threat to democracy”.
Reform Chairman Zia Yusuf accused Labour of “trying to stop the English County Council Elections.”
“The day after Harriet Harman talked about how poorly they were doing in by-elections.
“Starmer is governing like a despot.”