Cabinet minsters' councils seeing 'least amount of cuts'

By Thomas Bridge | 26 April 2016

The three councils with the smallest cuts to their budgets are all in areas with key cabinet ministers, analysis from Labour has claimed.

Shadow communities minister Jon Trickett branded it ‘disgraceful’ that Wokingham BC, Surrey CC and Windsor and Maidenhead RBC had seen the lowest budget cuts despite being the least deprived areas in the country.

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