LONDON (Reuters) -British minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday the government had been forced to intervene in the day-to-day running of England’s second-largest city, Birmingham, which earlier this month effectively declared bankruptcy.
Gove said he would appoint commissioners to take over the running of Birmingham City Council – the largest local authority in Europe – having determined that the council had failed to comply with its duties.
“I’m proposing the transfer to the commissioners of the exercise of all functions associated with the council’s governance and scrutiny of strategic decision making, all functions associated with its financial governance,” Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, told pa…
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