'Britons have the right to vote!' Reform councillor tears into Labour after postponing four mayoral elections - 'Unbelievable'

The four newly combined authorities will reportedly have their elections pushed back two years, having originally been slated for May 2026.

Expressing his outrage at the delay, Mr McIvor told GB News: "My immediate reaction is I think it's unbelievable.

"Yesterday Reform UK announced their Essex mayoral candidate and the following day they are going to cancel them."

Arguing that Britons "want Labour gone", he added: "Whatever you try and do, you cannot stop the British people from wanting change. They want change, they want Labour gone, they will never trust the Conservative Party again.

"These are people's democratic rights, these are not optional elections. People have the right to vote and the Government should remember that."

Highlighting that the right to vote is "fundamental" in British democracy, Mr McIvor fumed: "People died for this country so we would have freedoms and the democracy we enjoy today - it is a fundamental right, not an option.

"This Government needs to wake up to that. People's rights are not optional, they are fundamental."

Delivering his verdict on the postponed elections, GB News host Patrick Christys argued that if this decision happened under a Reform Government, Nigel Farage would be accused of leading a "dictatorship".

He explained: "I can't help but wonder, if we were living under a Nigel Farage Government and the elections were being postponed at this rate, this is not the only set of elections that have been postponed under Labour.

"How long would it be before the accusations from the Labour Party benches of us living in a dictatorship would come flooding out? I don't think it will be that long, would it?"

Criticising the Prime Minister following the decision and his latest attack on Reform UK, the councillor told GB News: "Desperate people do desperate things, don't they? Nothing else has worked, so I suppose any idea, even bad ideas, they might as well throw out at this point.

"This is a Prime Minister that's clinging onto power. I think he's months away from being disposed of by his own party, most likely, and he probably won't be a member of the Labour Party if he carries on, because there is such disdain for him."

Defending Brexit, Mr McIvor added: "But let's face it, Brexit was a great thing for this country. It's the first thing I personally ever voted for at the age of 18. And the good people of Essex, where I'm from, voted in their drones for Brexit.

"In fact, some people never voted before, but they went and they voted to leave the European Union to take back control of our country. It takes true patriots to recognise the benefits of Brexit, and what Keir Starmer is doing is what the Lib Dems love to do - talk down Britain, talk down our economy."

Taking aim at Sir Keir further, Mr McIvor stated: "It shows how un-entrepreneurial he is. Brexit was an opportunity for this country to rebuild itself again after what I think has been some horrific decades of poor governance.

"And actually it shows how un-entrepreneurial our Prime Minister is because rather than seize the opportunity, he wants to jump back into bed with Brussels again. He's a weak Prime Minister with no ideas and no innovation."

He concluded: "The problem is Keir Starmer would rather cozy up with the European Union than actually his own red wall voters. Talk about not reading the room.

"And the more he talks about Brexit, actually the more he's talking up Reform. So I'd like to thank Keir Starmer for his free promotion."