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13 June 2012updated 07 Jun 2021 1:30pm

The government has cut more from poor, Labour councils than rich Tory ones – and it shows

By Jen Williams

If Brexit feels like a perpetual exercise in banging your head against a wall, spare a thought for those of us who have spent nearly ten years making the same point about the least glamorous political topic of all – local government.

Since 2010, local political reporters like me have spent each January or February traipsing into town halls for the annual budget cuts briefing, an event only ever livened up by things being just that bit worse than the year before.

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