EFS is government’s ‘most disgraceful policy’, says Tony Travers

Pressure is growing on the government to rethink exceptional financial support (EFS), with leading academic and advisor Tony Travers calling it successive governments’ “most disgraceful policy”.

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Speaking at Room151’s LATIF 2026 conference, Travers said that “effectively requiring councils to borrow to fund revenue spending or to sell off assets conflicts

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