{"id":945823,"date":"2026-05-08T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:07:17","slug":"local-election-results-2026-live-north-east-counting-now-as-reform-take-all-12-seats-in-hartlepool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945823\/","title":{"rendered":"Local election results 2026 LIVE: North East counting now as Reform take all 12 seats in Hartlepool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Prime Minister, speaking to local Labour members, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve made some big calls, to stabilise our public finances, to invest in our public services, not to get dragged into a war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBut we\u2019ve also made unnecessary mistakes, one of which was that although we were right to level with the public about the scale and depth of the challenges we face, we didn\u2019t do enough to convince them that things will get better, that things will improve, the hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cAnd that is why in the coming days I\u2019m going to set out the steps that we will take to deliver the change that they want and that they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister, speaking to local Labour members, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve made some big calls, to stabilise our public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[36240,39804,10751,64070,12,68108,285,2958,16,15],"class_list":["post-945823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-gateshead","tag-hartlepool","tag-local-elections","tag-newcastle-upon-tyne","tag-news","tag-north-tyneside","tag-politics","tag-sunderland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116538405584314079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945823","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=945823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}