Northern Labour MPs 'feel like idiots' over council funding cuts

Northern Labour MPs 'feel like idiots' over council funding cuts

Angela Rayner is gone and now you’re twelve million quid worse off. That was the message received by Trafford Council in Greater Manchester from the government this week. The northern council is one of several that have lost out after a controversial change to the funding formula for local government. You can read more about that here and how it’s yet another after-tremor of the fall of the former deputy prime minister (a moment historians will …