{"id":295584,"date":"2026-06-03T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=295584"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:37:20","slug":"polls-open-in-uk-local-elections-seen-as-a-verdict-on-keir-starmers-leadership-world-news-asiaone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=295584","title":{"rendered":"Polls open in UK local elections seen as a verdict on Keir Starmer&#8217;s leadership, World News &#8211; AsiaOne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 British voters cast ballots Thursday (May 7) in midterm local and regional elections that could shake up the country&#8217;s politics and deliver a heavy blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer&#8217;s centre-left Labour Party is bracing for big losses in polls that will choose about 5,000 local councilors and a handful of<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/world\/polls-open-uk-local-elections-seen-verdict-keir-starmers-leadership\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 British voters cast ballots Thursday (May 7) in midterm local and regional elections that could shake up the country&#8217;s politics and deliver a heavy blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer&#8217;s centre-left Labour Party is bracing for big losses in polls that will choose about 5,000 local councilors and a handful of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295584"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=295584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}