{"id":617006,"date":"2026-06-02T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:01:10","slug":"we-want-policies-for-essex-not-prayers-say-reform-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617006\/","title":{"rendered":"We want policies for Essex not prayers, say Reform critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform won 53 seats and became the majority party on the council in last month&#8217;s local election, ending the Tories&#8217; 25-year rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, council leader Peter Harris said all &#8220;net stupid zero&#8221; policies would be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Net zero refers to a state in which greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced out by those removed. The Climate Change Committee, which advises the UK and devolved governments, says achieving net zero is more cost-effective for the economy than continued reliance on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not clear what climate initiatives will end in Essex, and a council spokesperson later said &#8220;a review process&#8221; was under way following the new administration&#8217;s &#8220;direction&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform won 53 seats and became the majority party on the council in last month&#8217;s local election, ending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617006","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\/617006","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=617006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}