{"id":572419,"date":"2026-05-08T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:38:10","slug":"london-election-results-labour-loses-control-of-wandsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572419\/","title":{"rendered":"London election results: Labour loses control of Wandsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merton deputy leader: Proud of Labour&#8217;s hard workpublished at 05:16 BST<\/p>\n<p>05:16 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25b7ae87-97de-4591-bb57-d7ce8cd226ef.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Harry Low<br \/>Reporting from Merton<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woman with blond hair and red rosette smiling\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4e184f64-9cfa-46b9-9140-fdc2eb0edf95.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Eleanor Stringer, Labour&#8217;s deputy leader of Merton Council, says she is &#8220;really proud of the team and how hard we worked for this election&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have won 17 of the 22 seats declared so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says: &#8220;It tells us that local residents are really happy with what we&#8217;re delivering in Merton for our residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got lower council tax than any of the lived-in boroughs nearby whilst investing in our local services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got brilliant parks, we&#8217;ve been investing in services like pop-up tips, new street trees, and residents really, really appreciate that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the local stuff that matters. It&#8217;s our community and we care about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about mounting pressure on the prime minister, she says &#8220;it&#8217;s far too early&#8221; to talk about that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She adds: &#8220;I think we need to continue to put the country first, put residents first and stay away from some of those arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merton deputy leader: Proud of Labour&#8217;s hard workpublished at 05:16 BST 05:16 BST Harry LowReporting from Merton Councillor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572419","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\/572419","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=572419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}