{"id":76584,"date":"2025-05-05T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76584\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:45:16","slug":"tories-are-finding-out-that-no-political-party-enjoys-a-divine-right-to-exist-let-alone-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76584\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories are finding out that no political party enjoys a divine right to exist, let alone govern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reform UK\u2019s Sarah Pochin after the party won the seat in Runcorn and Helsby. Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/047552f0-fab5-4328-91fd-e21f326e8ac7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft5 beltel-1d70522a_marginright5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Reform UK\u2019s Sarah Pochin after the party won the seat in Runcorn and Helsby. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the many remarkable features of a remarkable set of elections is that virtually nowhere in the various councils and mayoralties \u2014 nor in the razor-edge by-election in Runcorn \u2014 has there been a traditional straight fight between Labour and Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Instead, it\u2019s been, most commonly, Labour versus Reform, sometimes the Tories trying to compete with Nigel Farage\u2019s insurgents, and some scraps in the south and west of England between the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK\u2019s Sarah Pochin after the party won the seat in Runcorn and Helsby. Getty Images One of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,528,384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-76584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-labour-party","17":"tag-nigel-farage","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114455532272262864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584","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=76584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}