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NEARLY £90m of cuts, 800 job losses and a five per cent rise in council tax have been voted through as part of Leeds City Council’s budget for the coming year. The changes were announced by the authority’s new leader Coun James Lewis (Lab), who said the increases in demand for services and loss of revenue caused by Covid-19 meant the city was facing its “biggest crisis in 75 years”. However, opposition leader Coun Andrew Carter (Con) claimed the authority’s financial problems were “self-inflicted wounds” and warned further financial hardship would be caused by the council’s “profligate” borrowing policies. ....
NEARLY £90m of cuts, 800 job losses and a five per cent rise in council tax have been voted through as part of Leeds City Council’s budget for the coming year. The changes were announced by the authority’s new leader Coun James Lewis (Lab), who said the increases in demand for services and loss of revenue caused by Covid-19 meant the city was facing its “biggest crisis in 75 years”. However, opposition leader Coun Andrew Carter (Con) claimed the authority’s financial problems were “self-inflicted wounds” and warned further financial hardship would be caused by the council’s “profligate” borrowing policies. ....