Why UK councils are cutting services but raising taxes

Birmingham may boast that it is Europe's biggest local authority, but its city councillors will be voting tonight on whether to shrink services while hiking up council tax bills by more than 20 per cent in the next two years.
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That means hundreds of jobs are at risk along with services such as libraries, road repairs, and park maintenance.

And Birmingham is by no means alone among local authorities in being effectively bankrupt.

So, what do voters want to see in the next budget?

Improved public services provided by a better-funded NHS and enough money for local councils? Or do they want to see tax cuts? Or cuts to National Insurance - something that has been widely leaked as the government plan.

We have been to very different parts of the country to try to find out

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