"I disagree, I think it is a scandal. This is yet another example of Labour not being ready for Government. This reorganisation is taking too long. I've been a local government minister and there have been situations where you needed to postpone a year, so we'll have an extra year just so that we can be ready. This is now out of control."
"Don't get me wrong, we've still got a long way to go, but people are understanding what we stand for better. I'm taking the message out there. But this is Labour, it's probably more that they have just been a shambles, just like they've been in shambles with the last Budget, with everything that they have charged. These people don't know how to govern."
Kemi Badenoch condemned Labour after the government postponed numerous mayoral elections across Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk, Hampshire & Solent, and Sussex & Brighton. She accused Labour of making a hash of local councils and said the reorganisation is taking too long. Badenoch accepted occasional one-year postponements can be necessary but characterized the current delays as out of control and a denial of democracy. She argued Labour were unready for government, described them as a shambles following the Budget, suggested they lacked governing competence, and said the postponements reflected broader failures in local government reorganisation.
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