{"id":945605,"date":"2026-05-08T07:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945605\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:49:16","slug":"reform-makes-sweeping-gains-in-england-and-scottish-count-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945605\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform makes sweeping gains in England and Scottish count to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><strong>Reform UK has made substantial gains in the early results of England&#8217;s local elections, while the count in Scotland is set to begin at 9am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In England, where counting began overnight, a total of 41 councils, out of 136, had declared by just after 8am, with major gains for Reform and significant losses for Labour.<\/p>\n<p>There were big losses for the Conservatives as well, along with more modest gains for the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK was on top this morning with 353 councillors, with Labour in second with 245 (down 249).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lib Dems gained 36 councillors for a total of 241, while the Tories lost 130, giving them 226.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Party had 48 councillors (up 25) and there were 20 independents (down 16).<\/p>\n<p>Polls closed in Scotland at 10pm last night, with the count due to get underway at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>The first results are not expected until this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK has made substantial gains in the early results of England&#8217;s local elections, while the count in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-945605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537862959177854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945605","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=945605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}