{"id":4608,"date":"2026-05-15T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/burnham-cleared-to-run-for-selection-in-pivotal-by-election\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:37:07","slug":"burnham-cleared-to-run-for-selection-in-pivotal-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/burnham-cleared-to-run-for-selection-in-pivotal-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/af1fAj.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Steve Reed, the housing secretary and an ally of the PM, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been a very difficult week but we need to take a breath now, take this weekend to reflect on what&#8217;s going on, and come back next week and focus on the country we were elected to serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Published at Fri, 15 May 2026 21:39:27 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election Steve Reed, the housing secretary and an ally of the PM, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been a very difficult week but we need to take a breath now, take this weekend to reflect on what&#8217;s going on, and come back next week and focus on the country we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/burnham-cleared-to-run-for-selection-in-pivotal-by-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}