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Pickles: I would have considered reorganisation in ideal world

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has suggested local government reorganisation would have been on the table ‘in an ideal world’.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has suggested local government reorganisation would have been on the table ‘in an ideal world'.

On a visit to a business park in Nottingham yesterday, Mr Pickles said he had been put off the move by the cost and the risk of local government ‘grinding to a halt'.

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