Shadow communities secretary, Andrew Gwynne, has called for the Government to scrap its fair funding review.
Mr Gwynne warned the ‘so-called fair funding formula’ could tip councils ‘over the edge’ and said the Government should ‘ensure that local authorities are properly funded through a fairer system that properly takes account of deprivation, need and differing council tax bases’.
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