Robert Bloom (North Northamptonshire): entry removed from tracker
This entry was reviewed and removed from the live 2026 Council Changes Tracker.
The previous content is preserved in the public “Considered and excluded” section below
with the full editorial reasoning. The tracker maintains a strict 2026 cohort definition,
and this entry did not meet that definition under review.
Reason
2026-05-17 evening: REJECTED. Pre-cohort event. Bloom resigned 2025-08-27 over racism allegations; the press coverage tier 2 auto-publish picked up was about his ongoing 2026 court case, not a fresh event. Tier 2 used the vacancy_date as event_date and treated the court-case story as a new resignation. Fails the strict-cohort gate on event_date < 2026-05-07. Harvester now applies an event_date guard to prevent this class of error.