{"id":73688,"date":"2026-02-16T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-local-council-elections-in-may-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:20:38","slug":"government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-local-council-elections-in-may-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-local-council-elections-in-may-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Government abandons plans to delay 30 local council elections in May \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Government abandons plans to delay 30 local council elections in May \u2013 UK politics live<\/div>\n
The government was warned by its lawyers that such a move could be illegal as it pledges an additional \u00a363m to help councils with reorganisationIn his Q&A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a report by the BBC\u2019s James Landale saying he is looking at plans to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament. In the past Starmer has just said that he would like to do this at some point in the next parliament.In his reply, Starmer said that at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend he was arguing that the UK, and Europe as a whole, needs to \u201cstep up\u201d.We want a just and lasting peace, but that will not extinguish the Russian threat, and we need to be alert to that, because that\u2019s going to affect every single person in this room, every single person in this<\/div>\n
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Politics Government abandons plans to delay 30 local council elections in May \u2013 UK politics live The government was warned by its lawyers that such a move could be illegal as it pledges an additional \u00a363m to help councils with reorganisationIn his Q&A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75915,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73688\/revisions\/75915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}