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Daily Mail story headline that Lib Dem council in Surrey is close to collapse due to massive overspending

Truth is it’s only been Lib Dems control for 3 Weeks.

It’s been a TORY council for the last decade while the debts were racked up!!

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The Torys run the council for 14 yr & racked up huge debts, mainly between 2016 & 2019 the reports say

Lib Dems won control in May 2022 but after the budget was set in March 2022. First year they are in charge and set budget is this yr
I’m a labour politician not Lib Dem but the headlines are so misleading they need calling out - Torys are to blame. The review carried out clearly states how they got in to this mess
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England’s "flagship" test-&-trace service is STILL spending more than £1m a day on private consultants - an “eye-watering” waste of taxpayers’ money that is failing to cut Covid infection levels.

The average DAILY contractor rate is £1,100.

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theguardian.com/world/2021/nov…
Dr Jenny Harries, CEO of the UK Health Security Agency, who is responsible for test & trace, told MPs in July there was a “very detailed ramp-down plan” to cut the number of consultants.

But latest figures show that at the end of October it STILL employed 1,230 consultants.
New contracts worth millions of pounds are STILL being awarded to private consultancy firms, despite repeated pledges to curb their use.

The test-and-trace system has a £37 BILLION two-year budget - equivalent to almost a fifth of the annual #NHS England budget.
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