The government will allow the council’s election to go ahead, but new councillors will have to deal with a long inquiry.
Voters will go to the polls in Liverpool Council elections next Saturday after an eleventh-hour appeal and a flurry of negotiations saw the Minns government abandon a push to defer the vote until after a public inquiry considered serious allegations of misconduct at the council.
Liverpool Council challenged the interim report handed down by the Office of Local Government, arguing that Hoenig and departmental secretary Brett Whitworth had displayed bias in publishing the report and that the minister’s efforts to suspend the council and delay the election were unlawful. He said he was “pleased to confirm” the election would proceed, adding the public inquiry would commence after the election.
“The investigation ... raised very serious concerns that the issue of Liverpool went beyond the non-merit-based selection of staff,” he said.The decision by Breton to appeal prompted an open letter from three Liverpool councillors who said they had lost confidence in the acting chief executive “and his capacity to make decisions in the best interests of the Liverpool community”.
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