{"id":51668,"date":"2026-05-01T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/labours-london-squeeze-exposes-a-fragmented-british-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:29:29","slug":"labours-london-squeeze-exposes-a-fragmented-british-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/labours-london-squeeze-exposes-a-fragmented-british-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s London squeeze exposes a fragmented British politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">One in seven Labour MPs represents constituencies in the capital. The prime minister is a London member of parliament, as is his deputy, David Lammy, as well as the man who wants Starmer&#8217;s job, Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Secretary State for Housing, Steve Reed, completes the quartet of powerful London MPs in the Cabinet. A significant percentage of the party&#8217;s activists, and the members who choose the party&#8217;s leaders, live in the capital. Losses here will hurt Labour&#8217;s core.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy2vlww2ezo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in seven Labour MPs represents constituencies in the capital. The prime minister is a London member of parliament, as is his deputy, David Lammy, as well as the man who wants Starmer&#8217;s job, Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Secretary State for Housing, Steve Reed, completes the quartet of powerful London MPs in the Cabinet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2234,10138,14880,1997,141,338,12527],"class_list":["post-51668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-british","tag-exposes","tag-fragmented","tag-labours","tag-london","tag-politics","tag-squeeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51670,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51668\/revisions\/51670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}