{"id":572199,"date":"2025-11-15T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572199\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:40:12","slug":"wave-of-london-labour-defections-grows-as-another-councillor-quits-party-over-financial-mismanagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572199\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave of London Labour defections grows as another councillor quits party over \u2018financial mismanagement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Bacon, shadow minister for London, said: &#8220;The Labour government have been in power for just 16 months, but already their disastrous handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economy<\/a> can be felt the length and breadth of the country, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation<\/a> double what it should be, unemployment rising, taxes at record levels, business confidence through the floor, borrowing and spending out of control. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Bacon, shadow minister for London, said: &#8220;The Labour government have been in power for just 16 months,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,1700,393,4884,476,807,12188,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-572199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-inflation","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-labour-government","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115554236720319811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572199","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=572199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}