{"id":237773,"date":"2025-04-24T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/local-elections-why-do-they-matter-to-the-tories-itv-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:04:50","slug":"local-elections-why-do-they-matter-to-the-tories-itv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/local-elections-why-do-they-matter-to-the-tories-itv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Elections: Why do they matter to the Tories? | ITV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/T9pKpbECtKk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Local Elections: Why do they matter to the Tories? | ITV News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9pKpbECtKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the local elections on May 1, Professor Jane Green breaks down why each party will be paying close attention to how they can spin the results. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follows ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the local elections on May 1, Professor Jane Green breaks down why each party will be paying close attention to how they can spin the results. \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news Follows ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-237773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local Elections: Why do they matter to the Tories? | ITV News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Local Elections: Why do they matter to the Tories? | ITV News for free, here on News ISC. 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