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Cook boils over about 'crippling' uncertainty

Stockton-on-Tees BC’s leader, Cllr Bob Cook, has damned the ‘crippling’ uncertainty surrounding how local government will be funded in future.

By Dan Peters | 15 February 2019

Stockton-on-Tees BC's leader, Cllr Bob Cook, has damned the ‘crippling' uncertainty surrounding how local government will be funded in future.

Speaking as the council prepares to agree its medium-term financial plan to 2023, Cllr Cook said it was ‘no surprise' that local authorities were reaching a financial cliff edge.

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