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Joe Anderson, Derek Hatton arrested among others....


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The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.

 

The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.

 

Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.

 

Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.

 

Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.

 

Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.

 

The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.

 

He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.

 

Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.

 

Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.

 

The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".

 

Mr Jenrick ordered the inquiry into Liverpool’s council last December following the arrest of city Mayor Joe Anderson. 

 

Mr Anderson was held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. Mr Anderson has denied any wrongdoing and last week he told The Telegraph: “I have never taken a bribe in my life."

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10 hours ago, Nelly-Torres said:

When do we riot? 

If this goes ahead Toxteth could look like a Jamboree in comparison.

A loathing of the Tories, frustration, pent up anger, lockdown, it's a powder keg. 

Add to that all the little scally gobshites who delight in destroying things anyway, all the ingredients are there.

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Liam Thorp is saying that the report could be extremely bad, but that there's still a belief that the Liverpool City Council Chief Exec might be the right person to turn things around. He says commissioners could be appointed to just run specific, problem departments of the Council but that the "nuclear option" of commissioners taking over entirely is still a possibility. 

 

So, Thorp either has sources or is in the dark and hedging his bets. 

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1 minute ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I thought the Northern Party was a fucking awful idea but then you see what Labour have to offer.

 

Does the monster raving looney party still exist.

I said this about Starmer. Just another Tony Blair clone. Corbyn really was Labour's last hope of an actual Labour Party somewhere close to its roots.

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