{"id":575381,"date":"2026-05-09T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575381\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:28:13","slug":"green-gains-see-labour-lose-control-of-lewisham-and-lambeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575381\/","title":{"rendered":"Green gains see Labour lose control of Lewisham and Lambeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means the party has won control of three councils in the capital, along with Waltham Forest and Hackney in north-east London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Lewisham &#8211; where Labour have been the largest party since 1968 &#8211; the Greens toppled a huge majority, winning 40 seats to gain control of the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last time the council was up for election in 2022, Labour won every single seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Lambeth, the Greens gained 27 seats, pushing Labour out of power in the borough for the first time since 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In results on Friday, the party also made big gains in Hackney and Islington, where Labour held on to power despite a Green surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It means the party has won control of three councils in the capital, along with Waltham Forest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-575381","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\/575381","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=575381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}