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RIVAL campaigns to shake up local government in Somerset have locked horns over a new report.
The Government is currently consulting over proposals to replace the five existing Somerset councils with either a single unitary authority (dubbed One Somerset) or two unitaries (called Stronger Somerset).
A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has criticised the Stronger Somerset proposals, claiming they have a “lack of detail and evidence” and come up short in a number of fundamental areas.
The Stronger Somerset team has rejected the report, saying it contains numerous “misunderstandings and inaccuracies” and that the auditors made no effort to contact them when it was being written.