New local government secretary Robert Jenrick will take a fresh look at councils excessively borrowing for commercial reasons, The MJ understands.
Whitehall had been eyeing a crackdown under the previous administration, with the idea of ‘further interventions’ being considered in a bid to slow the commercialisation trend.
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