{"id":40214,"date":"2024-05-10T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=40214"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:19:54","slug":"bristol-labour-reject-committee-chair-role-after-backroom-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/05\/10\/bristol-labour-reject-committee-chair-role-after-backroom-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Labour reject committee chair role after &#8216;backroom deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/City_Hall_Bristol.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Digital-elec-video_3.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leader of Bristol&#8217;s Labour group in City Hall, Tom Renhard, has told Bower News that the party will sit &#8220;in opposition&#8221; for the first time since former Mayor Marvin Rees came into power eight years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Bristol Lib Dems <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BristolLibDems\/status\/1788889757398777944\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BristolLibDems\/status\/1788889757398777944\">said on X<\/a> that Labour &#8220;have only attended one meeting&#8221; throughout the cross-party committee talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Talks are continuing and we would like to see all parties fully participate in these for the good of the city,&#8221; the party added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Democracy Reporter Adam Postans has shared the following which casts doubt on Labour&#8217;s claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m now hearing Labour&#39;s claim is disputed.<\/p>&mdash; AdamPostansLDR (@adam_ldr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adam_ldr\/status\/1788904480991281160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bristol Green Party are yet to make a formal response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Bristol&#8217;s Labour group in City Hall, Tom Renhard, has told Bower News that the party will sit &#8220;in opposition&#8221; for the first time since former Mayor Marvin Rees came into power eight years ago. In response, Bristol Lib Dems said on X that Labour &#8220;have only attended one meeting&#8221; throughout the cross-party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":40043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40214"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40240,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions\/40240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}