{"id":21226,"date":"2022-05-06T05:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T05:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21226"},"modified":"2022-05-06T05:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T05:39:40","slug":"local-elections-2022-labour-takes-wandsworth-for-first-time-since-1970s-as-partygate-hits-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/06\/local-elections-2022-labour-takes-wandsworth-for-first-time-since-1970s-as-partygate-hits-tories\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2022: Labour takes Wandsworth for first time since 1970s as Partygate hits Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour sources are now briefing that they are confident that they have taken Westminister. That would be an even bigger gain for the party than Wandsworth, where Labour now holds the council (having gained nine seats, with the Tories losing 11). Westminster has been Tory-held since it was created in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrats are celebrating the gain of five councillors in <strong>West Oxfordshire<\/strong>, home to former prime minister <strong>David Cameron<\/strong>\u2019s old constituency of Witney.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have lost their majority, losing five seats to leave them with 20, while the Lib Dems gained four to increase their total to 15. No party has an overall majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToppling the Conservatives in David Cameron\u2019s backyard is a truly historic result. The blue wall seats are crumbling beneath the weight of Boris Johnson\u2019s failure of leadership across England,\u201d the party tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Toppling the Conservatives in David Cameron&#39;s backyard is a truly historic result.  <\/p>\n<p>The blue wall seats are crumbling beneath the weight of Boris Johnson&#39;s failure of leadership across England.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LibDems\/status\/1522441523836637185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Prominent Conservative MP and former minister <strong>Stephen Hammond<\/strong> has said his local Wimbledon area saw a high turnout of \u201cangry Tories\u201d voting against the Conservatives, adding that it ought to be a \u201cclarion bell ringing in Downing Street to make sure we are concentrating on the cost of living\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, he said \u201cPartygate\u201d had been a big influence on voting.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he wanted Boris Johnson to bring \u201ctalents back into the government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny government that doesn\u2019t have people like Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt clearly isn\u2019t using all the talents available to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Boris Johnson\u2019s future, he said: \u201cI think he has to prove his integrity to the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latest scoreboard for England for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/LocalElections2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LocalElections2022<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BBCElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BBCElection<\/a>. <br \/>Full results: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zybD1npWBM\">https:\/\/t.co\/zybD1npWBM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3YlpA3Lwdt\">pic.twitter.com\/3YlpA3Lwdt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Election (@bbcelection) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbcelection\/status\/1522432560835534848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour sources are now briefing that they are confident that they have taken Westminister. That would be an even bigger gain for the party than Wandsworth, where Labour now holds the council (having gained nine seats, with the Tories losing 11). Westminster has been Tory-held since it was created in 1964. &nbsp; The Liberal Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[2735,5090,157,10000,2512,6672,1677,6576,6718,685,1258,3577,2264,12773,8248,1828,9974,4624,10634,11743,278,7968,6268,3174,1664,991,11325,7836,4890,255,5350,6266,6267,5448],"class_list":["post-21226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-bbc","tag-boris","tag-boris-johnson","tag-conservative","tag-conservatives","tag-cost-of-living","tag-david-cameron","tag-democrats","tag-downing","tag-downing-street","tag-england","tag-future","tag-government","tag-increase","tag-jeremy-hunt","tag-labour","tag-leadership","tag-lib-dems","tag-lost","tag-majority","tag-mp","tag-nine","tag-partygate","tag-prime-minister","tag-stephen","tag-stephen-hammond","tag-street","tag-the-liberal-democrats","tag-tories","tag-tory","tag-twitter","tag-uk-local-elections","tag-westminster","tag-wimbledon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}