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theguardian.comCraig Cheney sits slumped in his chair, with a look of dejection in place of his usually cheery demeanour. Bristol’s deputy mayor, who is also chair of the city council’s finance committee, needs to save £23m from next year’s budget – on top of almost £100m of cuts three years ago – to balance the books.
“We have ways of swallowing our own smoke if the only problem is inflation, but there are so many other extra costs that we need to cope with,” says the former business consultant turned Labour councillor. “It’s tough.”
It could have been worse. Until Rishi Sunak’s autumn budget, the gap in Bristol’s finances for next year was £41m, about 10% of the city’s day-to-day spending.
In Liverpool, deputy mayor Jane Corbett needs to find £34m of
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