{"id":962228,"date":"2026-05-15T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962228\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:51:15","slug":"watch-green-councillor-who-ousted-council-leader-says-housing-and-gaza-key-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962228\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Green councillor who ousted council leader says housing and Gaza key factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, 30 seats were up for grabs in the local elections, and of those, Labour only won three. <\/p>\n<p>Major ground was lost to Reform UK and the Greens, taking 12 and ten seats from Labour, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x724.jpeg\" alt=\"Local council election results map\" class=\"wp-image-71763\"  \/>Sheffield local council election results. Source: Sheffield City Council<\/p>\n<p>However, the greatest loss to Labour in Sheffield was undoubtedly its council leader, Tom Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after his defeat to the Green Party by a mere 73 votes, Hunt, said: \u201cThis was always going to be a difficult set of elections for the Labour Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Green Parties\u2019 Andy Davies unseated the former council leader in Walkley. <\/p>\n<p>Davies says his win in a traditionally Labour ward reflects a wider dissatisfaction with the Labour Party\u2019s leadership in Parliament, especially on key issues such as Gaza and council housing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 189&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Friday, 30 seats were up for grabs in the local elections, and of those, Labour only won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,268776,393,4884,14144,8414,285,386,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-962228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-council-election","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-green-party","13":"tag-labour","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-reform-uk","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116580338210448921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962228","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=962228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}