{"id":269,"date":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/07\/elections-2026-local-scotland-wales-reform-green-labour-conservatives-live-news-updates"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:18:26","slug":"aff93e0f0546bfee1029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2026 live: Labour suffers early losses as results begin to arrive in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK gain councillors in early results; Scottish and Welsh parliament results are due from midday2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votesWe\u2019re getting statements from some of the political parties now as we wait for results.For the Conservatives, party chairman Kevin Hollinrake said:We have run an energetic and positive campaign, showcasing that we have a clear plan to get Britain working again and that we have the team to deliver it&#8230; We know that so soon after a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/07\/elections-2026-local-scotland-wales-reform-green-labour-conservatives-live-news-updates\">Read original at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK gain councillors in early results; Scottish and Welsh parliament results are due from midday2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votesWe\u2019re getting statements from so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}