sentences:  The last elections to the councils were held in May 1981; elections that would have been held in 1985 were abandoned under the Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984; The original plan had been for councillors' terms to expire in April 1985, and for councillors to be replaced by nominees from borough councils until 1986.While the abolition of the GLC was highly controversial, the abolition of the MCCs was much less so.The Liberal Party leader David Steel had supported abolition of the MCCs in his 1981 conference speech .