This week was a tale of two budgets: the one Westminster obsessed with, and then the budget of Birmingham Council, which has signed off £300m in cuts ahead of a 21% rise in council tax after declaring itself effectively bankrupt.
All my bandwidth this week has been given over to the spring budget, the moment of the year when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt tells us his plans for the economy - how he's going to cut our taxes, or increase and set out where he's going to spend some of our money. But this week was a tale of two budgets: the one obsessed over in Westminster and then the budget of Birmingham Council, which has huge repercussions for the city's one million plus population.
' She added: 'I'd love to know Jess and Ruth's view on the present state of local government, what they think the future holds - and what they think the current government's intentions for local government are.
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