{"id":673168,"date":"2026-01-04T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:25:17","slug":"why-coventrys-2026-council-election-will-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673168\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Coventry&#8217;s 2026 council election will be different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour also faces a threat from the left. The Green Party already has two councillors on the city council. And there are &#8220;new kids on the block&#8221; in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly2xjgpg92o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Your Party, co-founded by Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The potential impact of this can be seen in the fact one councillor, elected as a Labour candidate, now sits in the chamber as an independent, in an alliance with the Greens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c207wy97v97o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">having left to back Your Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether Your Party decides to field or back other candidates in Coventry will be watched closely by Labour leaders in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those of a disruptive persuasion will be salivating at the prospect of all-out elections in Coventry in 2026. For Labour, the hope will be that Coventry doesn&#8217;t provide one of the biggest local political stories of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour also faces a threat from the left. The Green Party already has two councillors on the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-673168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115836585448382447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673168","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=673168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}