{"id":359535,"date":"2018-05-03T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-labour-tories-battle-in-2018-uk-local-elections\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:14:59","slug":"presstv-labour-tories-battle-in-2018-uk-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-labour-tories-battle-in-2018-uk-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Labour, Tories battle in 2018 UK local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK\u2019s two main parties, the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour, are set to lock horns in this year\u2019s local elections across England.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polling stations across the country will open on Thursday between 7am and 10pm local time and voters will head to the ballots to choose candidates that will take more than 4,000 seats across 150 councils in England.<\/p>\n<p>All the seats in capital London\u2019s 32 boroughs and the metropolitan districts of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Newcastle are also up for grab.<\/p>\n<p>There are no polls in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>While Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s party is hoping to keep its grip over main positions, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is positive that his party is set to repeat another strong showing like the one they had in last year\u2019s snap general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest elections are going to be in the main cities, particularly London, Birmingham, Newcastle \u2013 we\u2019re going to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/03\/560502\/UK-Labour-Tories-elections-Corbyn-May\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s two main parties, the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour, are set to lock horns in this year\u2019s local elections across England. Polling stations across the country will open on Thursday between 7am and 10pm local time and voters will head to the ballots to choose candidates that will take more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}