Councils will not be able to hold virtual council meetings after 6 May after the Government refused to budge on changes to legislation.
In a letter to council leaders late last night, local government minister Luke Hall said the Government had ‘concluded that it is not possible to bring forward emergency legislation on this issue at this time’.
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