The UK government has announced that local and mayoral elections scheduled for May are to be postponed for one year due to the Covid-19 epidemic to avoid the expected peak of the virus in late spring.
Voters in England were scheduled to go to the polls on May 7 — including for the London Mayoral contest — but just hours after the PM’s spokesperson said they were “working to facilitate” the elections, they have now been taken off the 2020 political calendar.
It comes a day after the Electoral Commission advised that May’s elections should be delayed until the autumn to “mitigate” the impact of the virus. Ten people have died with the virus, with 798 cases confirmed UK-wide.
