{"id":274059,"date":"2025-09-01T21:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/reform-uk-in-power-how-have-their-councils-performed-itv-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:05:19","slug":"reform-uk-in-power-how-have-their-councils-performed-itv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/reform-uk-in-power-how-have-their-councils-performed-itv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK in power: How have their councils performed? | ITV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/YdGbLzQ40Zg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Reform UK in power: How have their councils performed? | ITV News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdGbLzQ40Zg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>How Reform UK is judged to have run its councils could determine whether voters trust the party to one day run the country, ITV News Political Correspondent Harry Horton reports.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly four months ago, Reform swept the board in England\u2019s local elections. The party won almost 700 seats, and took control of 12 councils and two mayoral authorities.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first opportunity for Reform UK to demonstrate what it could do in power &#8211; knowing its new crop of leaders would face intense scrutiny from opposition parties and the national media.<\/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>Follow 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 X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Reform UK is judged to have run its councils could determine whether voters trust the party to one day run the country, ITV News Political Correspondent Harry Horton reports. Exactly four months ago, Reform swept the board in England\u2019s local elections. The party won almost 700 seats, and took control of 12 councils and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":274060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[129040,146944,134441],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-274059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-have","tag-judged","tag-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reform UK in power: How have their councils performed? | ITV News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Reform UK in power: How have their councils performed? | ITV News for free, here on News ISC. 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