Minister dismisses Reform criticisms over election delays

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Children's minister Josh MacAlister insists the decision to delay some mayoral elections by two years is because of "technical" changes being made to deliver a "devolution revolution", following criticism by Reform UK. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00There's local elections in May next year.

00:03The mayoral combined authorities that are already, and this is a technical point,

00:07that are already in unitary local authority areas where you've only got one tier of local government.

00:13Those elections will be going ahead in 2027.

00:16The delay for two years is for areas where they've still not sorted out their local government organisation,

00:23so we need to get that right.

00:24This government is bringing about a devolution revolution.

00:27We'll have had more mayors be created in this parliament than any other,

00:30but we need to make sure that's done correctly.

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