The county council’s spin machine has been at it again.

An almost laughably misleading press release has been issued which pretends that there is nothing wrong with the county council’s accounts – just days from when the District Auditor is expected to be issuing a Section 11 notice.

Leader of the Opposition Chris White said: ‘This is a serious misuse of public resources – which are not supposed to be spent on Tory Party propaganda. I have complained formally to the council’s Chief Monitoring officer and to the Audit Commission.

‘The council must withdraw this press release without delay.’

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Notes

The offending press release is number 10386