Ministers have abandoned efforts to delay May’s council elections for more than 4.5million people in the 14th humiliating U-turn by Keir Starmer since he took power.
The government was forced into a dramatic climbdown this afternoon following a legal challenge by Reform to the move to postpone votes in 30 local authorities by a year.
Insiders suggested a misinterpretation of the law was to blame for the blunder, which came just
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