The outgoing chief executive of Liverpool Council said she expects the panel set up to drag the authority out of trouble to be more than a “talking shop.”
In August last year Greg Clark MP, the then Levelling Up Secretary, confirmed alongside further expansion of government oversight of the city council, a new panel would be set up to lead it out of the intervention. The panel is chaired by Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region, and former city councillor.
After months of delay, the group finally met at Mann Island on Monday. Mayor Joanne Anderson confirmed to a meeting of the council’s final mayoral and performance select committee last night that she was present alongside Sir Howard Bernstein former chief executive of Manchester Council, and Baroness Judith Blake, former leader of Leeds Council.
