Starmer Drops Plans To Delay Some Local Elections In Another U-Turn

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday Feb. 14, 2026. 

Keir Starmer’s government has just abandoned plans to delay local elections in Labour’s 14th recorded U-turn since getting into power.

The government had planned to delay local elections for 30 councils in England – which were originally scheduled for May – while re-organising the council system and abolishing some local authorities.

While Labour justified...