{"id":46584,"date":"2023-07-25T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/25\/pm-rishi-sunak-rules-out-birmingham-bailout\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:46:15","slug":"pm-rishi-sunak-rules-out-birmingham-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=46584","title":{"rendered":"PM Rishi Sunak rules out Birmingham bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">However, speaking on a visit to a building site in the city, the prime minister said: &#8220;The council just needs to do a better job of managing the figures properly and delivering good quality services to residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Labour leader of Birmingham City Council said he was surprised when the scale of the bill was revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">John Cotton took over in May and said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-66042403\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">commitment came to light<\/a> when he ordered a review of the finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">That was despite paying out about \u00a31.1bn in claims since a landmark court case in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The claims were brought by council workers in traditionally female-dominated jobs, such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The GMB union, which represents thousands of council workers, said the issue had been around for a long time and that the council should have been aware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd1wnxp9ny1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] However, speaking on a visit to a building site in the city, the prime minister said: &#8220;The council just needs to do a better job of managing the figures &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}