DESPITE lockdown, elections are still expected to go ahead in North East Lincolnshire - and elsewhere - this spring.
So says cabinet minister Chloe Smith who today told MPs a "high bar" would need to be crossed for the Government to delay polls.
Quizzed in the Commons, Ms Smith, who is on the mend after breast cancer surgery, said: “We cannot postpone democracy for ever.”
She expressed confidence that covid-safe elections would proceed as they have done in other countries, not least the United States.
Polling day is May 6, but campaigning usually takes place over many weeks beforehand.
Last year's elections were scrapped because of the pandemic, but government - and local government - have had almost a year to prepare for this year.
In some parts of the country, leafletting has already been taking place in breach of lockdown regulations.
NELC is controlled by the Conservatives who will have benefited from last year's poll postponement.
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