{"id":39653,"date":"2024-05-01T01:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/chris-mason-what-this-weeks-local-elections-mean-for-national-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T01:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T01:50:49","slug":"chris-mason-what-this-weeks-local-elections-mean-for-national-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/chris-mason-what-this-weeks-local-elections-mean-for-national-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: What this week&#8217;s local elections mean for national politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C3AE\/production\/_133249005_pxl_20240430_133125190.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chris Mason: What this week&#8217;s local elections mean for national politics\" title=\"Chris Mason: What this week&#8217;s local elections mean for national politics\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is an estimate of the share of the vote that the principal parties would have won if, across Britain as a whole, voters had behaved in the same way as those who did vote in the wards that were contested by all three principal parties in this year&#8217;s English local elections. Electoral experts Professor Sir John Curtice and Professor Stephen Fisher <a href=\"https:\/\/electionsetc.com\/2023\/05\/03\/understanding-the-local-elections-projected-national-share-pns-in-2023\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">explain it in more detail here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-68926586\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an estimate of the share of the vote that the principal parties would have won if, across Britain as a whole, voters had behaved in the same way as those who did vote in the wards that were contested by all three principal parties in this year&#8217;s English local elections. Electoral experts Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/C3AE\/production\/_133249005_pxl_20240430_133125190.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2790,67,2307,9301,4372,369,4277],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653"}],"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=39653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39655,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions\/39655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}