REORGANISATION

Three years left to live?

Reorganisation proposals for Surrey have sparked divisions, even between councils with the same party colours. Dan Peters talks to the key players and hears that the Treasury could hold all the cards.

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‘I suppose it's not too different to being told you've got three years left to live,' says one council leader as they ponder local government reorganisation.

But local government hasn't stopped business as usual and gone to live its best life under a palm tree, as one given a terminal prognosis might.

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