Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, once a powerful opposition force in the city’s political landscape, will ask its members whether the group should dissolve after its leadership backed the idea and set up a task force to handle the legal steps involved. Chairman Lo Kin-hei said on Thursday the task force, to be led by him,…
This fact check has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. In recent weeks we’ve seen various different claims about local elections in May being “cancelled” or postponed — from politicians, in the media and on social media, where some…
Angela Rayner will promise to make devolution the “default setting” for councils across the country after senior Government figures warned they could overrule local authorities’ objections to push through key building plans. In a speech to regional leaders, the Deputy Prime Minister will vow to push power out of Whitehall and into the hands of…