{"id":957084,"date":"2026-05-13T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:08:15","slug":"birmingham-city-council-green-leader-rules-out-reform-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957084\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council Green leader rules out Reform coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks about how a new administration might look were still &#8220;in progress&#8221; Pritchard said, and nothing had yet been finalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the most important point is to get the best and right result for the city, and that&#8217;s what we really are keen to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said, if asked, he would serve as leader of the authority but added it was &#8220;what we do, rather than who&#8217;s in what job&#8221; that was more important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said his priority for a new administration would be sorting out the bin strike, with road maintenance and public services such as libraries and youth centres high on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had spoken to Unite in the run-up to the election, and hoped to resume conversations with the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks about how a new administration might look were still &#8220;in progress&#8221; Pritchard said, and nothing had yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116567428731848924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957084","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=957084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}