{"id":287758,"date":"2025-07-24T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287758\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:16:18","slug":"can-kemi-keep-the-conservative-party-afloat-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287758\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Kemi keep the Conservative Party afloat in London?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Others are sceptical. Ross doesn\u2019t think \u201cJames has what it takes to be Mayor\u201d, citing his belief that Cleverly \u201clacks charisma\u201d. Still, the idea has gained traction. \u201cIf James was interested, he would get a lot of support,\u201d says Scott Pattenden, Chair of the London region. But, even if the Conservatives won the mayorship, that doesn\u2019t change how much rests on the party\u2019s leader, Badenoch. Can she really win? Though criticised by some, she retains broad support within the party. Fortune calls her \u201cbrave\u201d and says, \u201cEvery time Kemi opens her mouth, something conservative comes out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Others are sceptical. Ross doesn\u2019t think \u201cJames has what it takes to be Mayor\u201d, citing his belief that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,12191,393,4884,1198,257,14252,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-conservatives","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-kemi-badenoch","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-sadiq-khan","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114907931266339081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}