{"id":455241,"date":"2026-03-03T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455241\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:46:10","slug":"bid-to-oust-reform-uk-worcestershire-county-council-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455241\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid to oust Reform UK Worcestershire County Council leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson said: &#8220;The council&#8217;s leadership has clearly failed over the past nine months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Reform] promised to cut waste and cut taxes. When a clear failure has occurred you need to stand by your actions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The situation we face is grave, and I have no confidence in this leadership to enact it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative group leader councillor Adam Kent said: &#8220;Reform were elected on promises to cut waste and reduce taxes, yet residents now face near-record council tax increases without a credible, costed recovery plan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Those who fail to plan, plan to fail &#8211; Worcestershire is now living that reality.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monk said: &#8220;If a notice of motion has been submitted in line with the council&#8217;s constitution, it may be debated at the next council meeting so I won&#8217;t be commenting at this stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robinson said: &#8220;The council&#8217;s leadership has clearly failed over the past nine months. &#8220;[Reform] promised to cut waste&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}