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BAD NEWS: Jeremy Hunt
COUNCILS across England are lurching towards bankruptcy because of government cuts, two surveys found yesterday.
The risk of bankruptcy is escalating after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, which made no provision for local authorities to cope with rising inflation.
A survey by the Local Government Association (LGA) found that 20 per cent of council leaders and chief executives believe it likely that they will have to legally declare they cannot balance their books over the next year.
Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
