The party’s litany of town hall failures

A STRING of Labour-run councils have been mired in scandal and financial difficulties in recent years:

■ Together Energy – 50 per cent owned by Warrington Borough Council – ceased operating in January. The firm was likely to run out of money that month without a capital injection.

■ Slough Borough Council effectively declared itself bankrupt last July after discovering a ‘catastrophic’ £100 million black hole in its budget.

■ Croydon Council in south London also effectively went bankrupt in 2020.

■ Liverpool City Council was thrown into chaos in 2019 when police launched an anti-corruption investigation into fraudulent property deals. It prompted the resignation of the city’s mayor Joe Anderson, who was arrested.