{"id":36258,"date":"2024-04-26T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/local-elections-whats-at-stake-for-voters-and-parties\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:55:37","slug":"local-elections-whats-at-stake-for-voters-and-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/local-elections-whats-at-stake-for-voters-and-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections: What&#8217;s at stake &#8211; for voters and parties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/04\/1920x1080\/skynews-daily-podcast-260424_6534242.png?20240426153759&amp;fit=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Local elections: What&#8217;s at stake &#8211; for voters and parties?\" title=\"Local elections: What&#8217;s at stake &#8211; for voters and parties?\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The 2 May local elections will have more than 2,600 seats at stake across 107 English councils. Labour&#8217;s Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham are among the 10 city mayors up for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Those in Blackpool South will also be voting for their next MP after ex-Tory Scott Benton broke Commons lobbying rules, triggering a by-election.<\/p>\n<p>With the Conservatives lagging behind Labour in the polls, the outcome will offer some insight on how voters in England and Wales feel ahead of the general election.<\/p>\n<p>On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky&#8217;s deputy political editor Sam Coates to discuss why the elections are so important for prime minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s future and where the key political backgrounds are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen above then tap here to follow the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts<\/a> \ud83d\udc48<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse and Soila Apparicio<br \/>Podcast promotions producer: Iona Brunker<br \/>Editor: Paul Stanworth<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/local-elections-whats-at-stake-for-voters-and-parties-13123393\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 May local elections will have more than 2,600 seats at stake across 107 English councils. Labour&#8217;s Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham are among the 10 city mayors up for re-election. Those in Blackpool South will also be voting for their next MP after ex-Tory Scott Benton broke Commons lobbying rules, triggering a by-election. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/04\/1920x1080\/skynews-daily-podcast-260424_6534242.png?20240426153759","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[67,2307,1998,2341,3456,300],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36260,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36258\/revisions\/36260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}