{"id":1687,"date":"2026-02-20T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:18:00","slug":"could-a-small-by-election-divine-the-future-of-the-uk-labour-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Could a small by-election divine the future of the UK Labour government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hannah-Spencer-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hanna Spencer is the Green&#8217;s candidate in Gorton and Denton. Photo: Lars Bevanger<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The results from the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester will be seen as a confidence vote in Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s government \u2013 and in the PM himself. Here is my piece for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BEVANGER-UK-by-election.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results from the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester will be seen as a confidence vote in Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s government \u2013 and in the PM himself. Here is my piece for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}