Welcome to 2021 :)
Readers, welcome to 2021, and let it be a much better year than 2020; so many of us are living under strict coronavirus restrictions at this time of writing but the vaccines are being rolled out across the world. Furthermore, the Brexit transition period has ended and Britain now enters a new era in that respect.
In political and electoral terms, here is what to watch out for in Britain and elsewhere:
1. A huge combination of district and county council elections in Britain (and also unitary authority elections), due to the former having been delayed by a year due to coronavirus.
2. The first elections to West and North Northamptonshire councils respectively-we say goodbye to Northamptonshire County Council; the new unitarised Buckinghamshire Council will also have its first elections (originally scheduled for May 2020).
3. The next Boundary Review for British parliamentary constituencies begins, and it will be the biggest constituency shake-up since 1983, especially with the requirement that all new constituencies have an electorate within 5% of the UK average still being in place.
4. The county council elections of Cumbria, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and Somerset could be their very last-each is up for some type of unitarisation.
5. General elections in the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Norway, and elsewhere.
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