Two experienced Labour politicians are part of the team appointed by ministers to help turn around the bankrupt Birmingham city council.
John Hutton, a Labour peer and former defence secretary, and John Biggs, a former mayor of Tower Hamlets in London, will provide political advice to the councils leadership as they take the difficult decisions that will be required.
The pair will act as political advisers alongside five commissioners appointed on Thursday by the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, to oversee a five-year recovery plan for the stricken Labour-run authority, whose financial woes led it to declare effective insolvency last month.
The commissioners will be paid fees of 1,100 a day plus expenses for up to 150 days a year, for …
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