{"id":33251,"date":"2026-05-20T17:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=33251"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:52:39","slug":"early-surprises-changes-london-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/05\/early-surprises-changes-london-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Surprise Changes London Council Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When this election campaign started almost three weeks ago, we thought 13 of 15 members of council were going to run for their old jobs &#8211; then we got a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Stevenson running for Mayor means the race in ward four is wide open. Tom Cull, who put in his nomination papers on the first day of the campaign, joined Craig to talk about the new race, what people at the doors are telling him and what he thinks the big issues are in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Craig Needles Podcast is powered by London Hydro \u2013 with support from Downtown London and the Covent Garden Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Craig on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NeedlesOnNews\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/craigneedles.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/craigneedlespodcast\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"podbean-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"podbean-shortcode\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=44c7s-1acc4b4-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=0&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=podcast_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the show on your favourite podcast app:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/f6821161-c427-469e-ad54-a9913e45cf3e\/the-craig-needles-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4bcTUq6pZZCFbD7EDdxJpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/The-Craig-Needles-Podcast-p1560524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-craig-needles-podcast\/id1593395773\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-craig-needles-podcast-236255548\/\">iHeart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When this election campaign started almost three weeks ago, we thought 13 of 15 members of council were going to run for their old jobs &#8211; then we got a change. Susan Stevenson running for Mayor means the race in ward four is wide open. Tom Cull, who put in his nomination papers on the","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":32754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thecraigneedlespodcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 21:07:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/05\/early-surprises-changes-london-council-race\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33253,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251\/revisions\/33253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}