{"id":947895,"date":"2026-05-09T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:16","slug":"reform-becomes-largest-party-on-kirklees-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947895\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform becomes largest party on Kirklees Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Reform UK has become the largest party on Kirklees Council after previously having no representation, while ruling party Labour fail to secure a single seat.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform won 29 seats, with 14 Independents, 12 Greens, nine Conservatives and five Liberal Democrats also elected, with no overall control for any party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirklees&#8217; Labour group leader Carole Pattison, who lost her Greenhead ward seat to the Greens, said she was &#8220;seriously concerned&#8221; about the lack of experience those who made gains had in local politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pattison added: &#8220;The message has been &#8216;get Starmer out&#8217;, but this is about local services, Starmer isn&#8217;t standing in this election.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK has become the largest party on Kirklees Council after previously having no representation, while ruling party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-947895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116543627436485298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947895","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=947895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}