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Birmingham’s latest failure to appoint a chief: the inside story
As Birmingham gets its sixth chief executive in the past four years, questions are being asked about the council s governance and the leadership culture, writes LGC editor Nick Golding.
Chris Naylor
“Birmingham messed up the process. It was a typical Birmingham mess,” is how one prominent figure involved in Europe’s biggest single-tier council described the city’s latest failure to appoint a chief executive.
It was announced last week that Birmingham City Council’s interim chief executive Chris Naylor – who was on a year’s secondment from Barking & Dagenham LBC which had been widely expected to result in a permanent appointment – will instead return to the London borough early, on 6 March.