{"id":623,"date":"2026-05-10T09:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:41:43","slug":"starmer-vows-to-stay-on-after-local-elections-deliver-losses-for-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Starmer vows to stay on after local elections deliver losses for Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain&#8217;s prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties. Thursday&#8217;s ballots\u00a0\u2013 Starmer&#8217;s biggest electoral test since Labour ousted the Conservatives in 2024\u00a0\u2013 left the British leader under intense pressure after the party suffered a historic mauling in its Welsh heartlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain&#8217;s prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=623\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}