How did things look before?<\/b><\/p>\n
Kirklees Council has had a difficult few years. It has a history of being in a “no overall control” situation, but has most recently been led by Labour. <\/p>\n
Going into this election Labour ran the authority as a minority administration.<\/p>\n
What happened last week?<\/b><\/p>\n
The Labour leader, group leader of the Liberal Democrats and group leader of the Conservatives all lost their seats. <\/p>\n
Reform won 29 seats, with 14 Independents, 12 Greens, nine Conservatives and five Liberal Democrats also elected – so no overall control for any party.<\/p>\n
Labour now have no councillors at all, having previously had 34.<\/p>\n
Who is now in charge? <\/b><\/p>\n
Negotiations will be under way over who runs the authority – although Reform are the largest group. <\/p>\n
Could a coalition be formed between other parties – or could Reform work with the Conservative group in some way?<\/p>\n
What happens next?<\/b><\/p>\n
For Kirklees there are big regeneration projects taking place in Huddersfield and a new leisure centre promised for Dewsbury. There was a feeling before this election that finances were back on a stable footing and the council could start planning for its future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did things look before? Kirklees Council has had a difficult few years. It has a history of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-954229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116560158349135079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954229","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=954229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}