Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson has demanded that the government does not bring in further "unsustainable" cuts to council budgets as the creaking local authority prepares to pass the £500m cuts mark since 2010.
Mayor Anderson has written to returning Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove urging him to deliver on the promises his government made to even things up in the country. The city leader was speaking after she revealed that Liverpool Council will be forced to make a further £73m in cuts over the next year - taking these cuts past the half a billion mark in the past 12 years.
Writing about the council's financial position, which she has already described as "untenable", Mayor Anderson said: "As an absolute priority, we need an assurance from government that there will be no further unsustainable cuts to our budget.
