Local elections in England scheduled for May — including the London mayoral election — will be delayed for a year because of coronavirus, Downing Street said
LONDON — .Elections had been scheduled to take place for seats on 118 English local councils and to select directly-elected mayors in eight cities and regions, on Thursday May 7.
With government scientists predicting the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.K. could still be 10 to 14 weeks away, the election would likely have taken place just as the cases were beginning to reach their highest levels. Independent London mayoral candidate and former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart, who has criticized the U.K. government's coronavirus response, said on Twitter it was"the right decision."The first round of French local elections are
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