{"id":71977,"date":"2025-02-12T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71977"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:30:28","slug":"eleven-labour-councillors-suspended-over-whatsapp-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/12\/eleven-labour-councillors-suspended-over-whatsapp-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven Labour councillors suspended over WhatsApp group"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h1 class=\"viewsHeaderText\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24047\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>Eleven\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/starmer-broxtowe-labour-councillors-b2672965.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Labour councillors<\/a>\u00a0have been suspended from the party over their membership of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">WhatsApp<\/a>\u00a0group that has already seen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/labour-andrew-gwynne-burnley-keir-starmer-government-b2695561.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0two MPs lose the whip.<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/11-labour-councillors-suspended-over-whatsapp-group\/ar-AA1yQt8b?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Eleven\u00a0Labour councillors\u00a0have been suspended from the party over their membership of a\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0group that has already seen\u00a0two MPs lose the whip.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Keir-Starmer.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71978,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71977\/revisions\/71978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}