{"id":46856,"date":"2026-02-16T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-council-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:45:55","slug":"government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/government-abandons-plans-to-delay-30-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Government abandons plans to delay 30 council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>All English elections will now go ahead as originally planned after Reform UK brought a legal challenge over the decision to delay some polls.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c70ne31d884o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All English elections will now go ahead as originally planned after Reform UK brought a legal challenge over the decision to delay some polls. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[13758,1683,1684,2833,369,121],"class_list":["post-46856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abandons","tag-council","tag-delay","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46858,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions\/46858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}