YORKSHIRE'S chance to vote on an elected assembly has been postponed.
While the North-East will get its chance to stage a referendum on November 4, it emerged yesterday that Yorkshire and the Humber and the North-West will have to wait.
Nick Raynsford, the local government minister, had surprised MPs by suggesting the Electoral Commission could advise pressing ahead with a controversial postal ballot in one region, but not another.
The referendum in the remaining regions, judged by the Government to be "unsafe", will be postponed, almost certainly until after the next General Election.
Mr Raynsford described the North-East's experience of postal experiments as "overwhelmingly positive", but significantly he made no mention of successful postal voting in either Yorkshire and the Humber, or the North-West.
Polling suggests the Yes camp is heading for defeat in these two regions.
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