Just republishing the most sobering interview of the week with Cllr Richard Samuel – who is deputy leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council – in case anyone has missed the opportunity of listening to it.
He went on Twitter to say B&NES faces a £53 m deficit this year and is planning an emergency budget for June ‘which is bound to make painful reading.’
He told me the shortfall will wipe out the council’s reserves and warned that – on a national level – local government was in serious danger of collapse with some authorities facing effective bankruptcy.
In a Zoom interview l asked him where the money had gone.
