{"id":326968,"date":"2025-12-20T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326968\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:27:19","slug":"staffordshire-council-facing-axe-says-elections-will-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326968\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire Council facing axe says elections will go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Murray, acting leader of the county, has also hit out at the possibility of the elections being postponed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It is hugely disappointing that, instead of a conversation around genuine devolution and the benefits that could bring to the county, the government are more interested in a conversation around delaying local democracy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was no public mandate for local government re-organisation and there is definitely no public mandate to cancel what would be our last ever district and borough elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any delay is not just for one year. With the added transition year into a new unitary authority, it will be another two years with no elections. As a result, some councillors will have served a six-year term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Cannock Chase District Council said the leader shared the minister&#8217;s correspondence with members, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It was shared with] the leaders of the other political groups on Cannock Chase District Council and [the leader] asked for a discussion with them as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councils have been given until 15 January to set out their case on elections being postponed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tamworth Borough Council has also been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Murray, acting leader of the county, has also hit out at the possibility of the elections being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-326968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}