{"id":574376,"date":"2026-05-09T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:58:15","slug":"birmingham-and-the-black-country-local-election-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574376\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham and the Black Country local election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No easy route to coalition &#8211; Lib Dem group leaderpublished at 21:20 BST 8 May<\/p>\n<p>21:20 BST 8 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/eca1c5d5-d6a8-4fbd-898f-9389be883fff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Elizabeth Glinka<br \/>Political Editor, West Midlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More now from Birmingham Lib Dem group leader Roger Harmer, who told us his party would not work with Reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Given that there is no overall control of the authority, he said his party would &#8220;work to establish a stable administration, however that is done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But obviously there is going to be a lot of discussions because there&#8217;s going to be no easy way of doing it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The make up of Birmingham city council showing a rainbow of seats\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f0ef1bbc-d4a5-4b11-afc6-2051785e8362.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2573\" height=\"1448\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the possibility of the Conservatives entering a coalition, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so, partly because they campaigned very hard on &#8216;vote for us to stop Reform&#8217; so it would look very odd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But secondly they ain&#8217;t got the numbers between them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The possibility of a rainbow coalition, I put to him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Possibly, possibly, quite a wide rainbow I think at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No easy route to coalition &#8211; Lib Dem group leaderpublished at 21:20 BST 8 May 21:20 BST 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-574376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574376","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=574376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}