Today at Prime Minister’s Questions, Jeremy Corbyn opened with a zinger.
The Labour leader asked: “Does the PM believe the collapse of Northamptonshire Council is the fault of the Conservative incompetence at a local level, or is it Conservative incompetence at a national level?”
As discussed on LabourList, Northamptonshire County Council is in crisis, and the local authority was recently forced to announce a Section 114 notice banning all new spending.
The Tory failures can be identified at two levels: locally, the council outsourced public services and oversaw frozen Council Tax rates; nationally, the government imposed devastating cuts.
“Does the PM believe the collapse of Northamptonshire Council is the fault of the Conservative incompetence at a local level, or is it Conservative incompetence at a national level? “@jeremycorbyn
“Let’s just look at what we see across the board in councils” @theresa_may #pmqs pic.twitter.com/QcookVfxsj
— BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics (@daily_politics) March 21, 2018
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