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  "path": "/opinion/2026/05/02/local-elections-labour/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T11:28:59.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.thecanary.co",
  "tags": [
    "Opinion",
    "Green party",
    "Labour Party",
    "Local Elections 2026",
    "Swindon's Sunday Sermon",
    "Rachael Swindon"
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  "textContent": "We’re heading into 7 May elections — local councils across England, the Scottish Parliament, and the Senedd in Wales — and the whole thing feels a bit like watching a slow betrayal unfold in real time. I obviously didn’t vote Labour in 2024. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Not after the purges, the […]\n\nBy Rachael Swindon",
  "title": "The local elections will be brutal for Labour – and they deserve it"
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