These will be the second set of elections during the premiership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
In Scotland, where the Scottish National Party is currently in power, the election will decide who governs the country in key areas such as health and education.<\/p>\n
All 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) are up for re-election.<\/p>\n
In Wales, where Labour has continuously been in power since devolution in 1999, 92 seats are up for grabs in an expanded Senedd.<\/p>\n
The party that wins the most seats in the Senedd would expect to lead the Welsh government and, like in Scotland, set policy on devolved issues.<\/p>\n
There are about 5,000 councillors across 136 local authorities, as well as six mayors, up for election in parts of England.<\/p>\n
Labour either controls or leads the majority of the council areas where voters are going to the polls in England on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The results will determine who runs vital public services such as schools, social care, rubbish collection and transport.<\/p>\n
All adults aged 18 and over can vote in the elections if they are either a British or Irish citizen, or a qualifying foreign national.<\/p>\n
Everyone voting in person in the local elections in England will need a valid photo ID, such as a passport or driving licence, but there is no such requirement in Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of the results in England, Scotland and Wales are expected on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These will be the second set of elections during the premiership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In Scotland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-942722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116530611899467584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}