ELECTIONS for Thurrock's 49 councillors are now back on - after the Labour government announced a U-turn on its plans to cancel them. It seems likely that it will be 'all-out elections' for 49 seats, which ws the original proposal for Thurrock under guidance from its commissioners.

Thurrock Council's Labour leadership looks set to submit a paper to government saying it believes it cannot run local elections next May without reducing its capacity to prepare for local government elections.

A Potentailly embarrassing difference of opinion has emerged between the Labour leader of Thurrock Council and two of her senior colleagues in the authority's cabinet... https://thurrock.nub.news/