{"id":362628,"date":"2026-01-10T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:37:08","slug":"warwick-borough-council-to-ask-for-local-election-to-be-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362628\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick Borough Council to ask for local election to be scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has indicated it would agree to postpone elections due in May<\/a> until 2027, if authorities make a request by mid-January.<\/p>\n

One of the councils that has taken up that offer is Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council<\/a>, which would also be affected by the Warwickshire changes.<\/p>\n

There, Labour group leader Chris Watkins said: “It was felt that holding [them] for a local authority that is shortly to be abolished is not a prudent use of resources.”<\/p>\n

The Labour group in Rugby said the limited life-span of Warwick Borough Council and the challenges of implementing the election were the main reasons for requesting the delay and noted the requests to delay elections elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Councillor Maggie O’Rourke, of the Labour group, also said she was concerned the council would be hit with staff cuts as the re-organisation approached.<\/p>\n

But Derek Poole, Conservative leader of the opposition on the council, said the re-organisation was “not relevant” and told the Labour group it was “down to the voters” to choose whether the elections continued, “not you”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has indicated it would agree to postpone elections due in May until 2027, if authorities make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-362628","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\/362628","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=362628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}