Doubt has been cast over what will now happen at Nottingham City Council where further Government intervention was planned amid Prime Minister Boris Johnson's resignation. The department tasked with overseeing the Labour-led authority has been thrown into disarray following a spate of resignations.
On Thursday, July 7 the city council had to submit its own letter of representation after then-minister of state for local Government, Kemi Badenoch, wrote to the authority informing it the Government is "minded" to take further action upon the discovery of more significant historic financial failings. These failings concerned the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), from which up to £40m was wrongly spent on other council services rather than council tenants.
The city council had already been under intense scrutiny from a Government-appointed improvement board following the collapse of Robin Hood Energy and patience had been wearing thin as more failures came to light. In a statement made by Ms Badenoch the Government said: "The reports paint a deeply concerning picture of serious historic financial and governance failings.
