Uttlesford District Council (UDC) has launched an independent review into the delayed issuing of postal votes in the run-up to Thursday’s General Election. Conservative Kemi Badenoch won the new North West Essex seat – formerly Saffron Walden – after seeing her majority slashed by almost 25,000, from 27,594 to 2,610. But her victory was immediately cast into doubt, with suggestions that Labour – whose candidate, Issy Waite, finished second – could seek to challenge it in light of UDC’s administrative error in failing to send out postal ballot papers on time. Mrs Badenoch’s reduced majority was…
