Secretary of state Michael Gove has demanded an intervention in Working BC begin immediately after the scale of its financial problems emerged.
The council has been branded the ‘most indebted’ council in the country, with debts to the tune of £1.9bn on a net budget of £24m, tied up in regeneration schemes and commercial investments.
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