{"id":37220,"date":"2023-05-06T03:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/06\/local-elections-2023-reaction-on-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T03:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T03:29:53","slug":"local-elections-2023-reaction-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=37220","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2023: Reaction on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Labour have won Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent and have taken control of Medway Council in the local elections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Meanwhile, the Conservatives have lost their majorities in Tamworth, Brentwood, Hertsmere and North West Leicestershire, as counting continues in England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Liberal Democrats have also gained council seats at the expense of the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The majority of the local election results will not be confirmed until later on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65485099\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Read more on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65491348?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Labour have won Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent and have taken control of Medway Council in the local elections. Meanwhile, the Conservatives have lost their majorities in Tamworth, Brentwood, Hertsmere and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}