{"id":573825,"date":"2026-05-09T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573825\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:26:11","slug":"reform-uk-ends-50-years-of-labour-leadership-in-barnsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573825\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK ends 50 years of Labour leadership in Barnsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were no big reactions at the Metrodome in Barnsley on Friday, not even when it became apparent Reform had taken control of the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite repeated requests, Reform has declined to put any of its Barnsley candidates forward for interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Steve, who has led Barnsley Council for 30 years, and who is one of the longest serving Labour councillors in the country, was one of the few to hold his seat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was &#8220;absolutely gutted&#8221; to see Labour colleagues lose, but said the defeat had not come as a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were no big reactions at the Metrodome in Barnsley on Friday, not even when it became apparent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573825","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\/573825","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=573825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}