{"id":71715,"date":"2026-05-15T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=71715"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:19:21","slug":"watch-crookes-and-crosspool-councillor-we-need-a-change-of-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/watch-crookes-and-crosspool-councillor-we-need-a-change-of-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Crookes and Crosspool Councillor &#8220;We need a change of direction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-d803b411-36a0-481a-939c-3bbe8b5544e1\">Last Thursday was a historic night for Sheffield City Council as a many of Sheffield&#8217;s Labour councillors were unseated in the worst local elections in the parties history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e2cb11b2-263c-48cd-9122-ea5dd6278b40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/sheffield-council-leader-ousted-as-green-wins-in-walkley\/\">Local Labour leader Tom Hunt lost his seat<\/a> as only three of Labour\u2019s councillors up for election this year have won their ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e81904cc-64d8-42d8-ac0d-30a1ad691eb0\">These results are threatening to be the end of days for Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who is facing calls from within the Labour party to resign as leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e301586a-b4fc-41ed-afd0-e527df6a08ed\">Sheffield Labour has <a href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldlabour.org\/2026\/05\/13\/cllr-fran-belbin-elected-as-leader-of-sheffield-labour-group\/\">announced a new candidate for council leader<\/a> but is the national party prepared to do the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e58de5c6-0210-4301-9732-f6fc412030a8\">Minesh Parekh, who held his seat last week, has been calling for Starmer to resign since November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Minesh Parekh\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3STj9HEv7pw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Labour councillors are calling for change after their lack of success in the recent local elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":71717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,50,82],"tags":[416,15,49],"class_list":["post-71715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-top-story","tag-elections","tag-news","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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