Liverpool: Ministers to increase city council intervention
The government has said it will expand its role in running Liverpool City Council to cover financial decisions, governance and recruitment, after expensive errors by the authority.
The council's past failure to renew some contracts could lead to losses of millions of pounds, a report revealed.
In 2021, the government appointed four commissioners to oversee some functions after a local governance "breakdown".
It will now appoint a fifth to deal with finance.