Send in the commissioners?
Author: Tom Harrison
Above: profiteers making millions from NHS Test and Trace contracts
Despite Thatcher being Prime Minister, the BBC still managed to get away with making socially relevant dramas in the 1980s. A particularly memorable one was United Kingdom, a play by Jim Allen, which imagined a Tory government sending in Commissioners to take over a town in the north of England after its local council refused to implement spending cuts. Major civil unrest ensued, as police were sent in to impose the central government s will on the working class community.
Such a scenario is extremely unlikely soon in the case of the City of Liverpool though, following Robert Jenrick, Tory Housing and Local Government Minister, sending in commissioners to help run the council whilst former mayor Joe Anderson helps Merseyside Police on corruption inquiries.
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