Exeter is of course just one of the places that’s gone to the polls today in what could be a hugely significant set of local elections for Labour – and Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer in particular.<\/p>\n
And there are early signs that they are fearing the worst nationally: Labour Party deputy leader Lucy Powell has just acknowledged today’s elections have been \u201ctough\u201d for the governing party.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cLabour has run positive, local campaigns right across the country, focused on our record of delivery, bringing communities together and addressing the public\u2019s number one priority: easing the cost of living. The whole party and Government are so proud of our hardworking Labour candidates who serve their local communities and put themselves forward for election.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese elections are tough and took place in a difficult context. After over a decade of Britain being held back, working people up and down the country rightly want to see the whole of our United Kingdom firing on all cylinders in their interests. Labour has started to deliver on that promise and we are determined to make it happen everywhere for everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigel Farage\u2019s false promises and toxic politics won\u2019t deliver the change people want to see. Zack Polanski has proved this week that he is unfit for office and has all the wrong answers to the problems our country faces.<\/p>\n
\u201cLabour will continue working every day putting our values into action and delivering the fairer future people want to see \u2013 by bearing down on the cost of living, fixing our NHS, taking on vested interests and rewiring the country to bring about a better Britain, built for all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter is of course just one of the places that’s gone to the polls today in what could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6209,31,4347,14,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-31139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-exeter","9":"tag-labour-party","10":"tag-local-elections","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116535526831870300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}