Local government minister, Phil Woolas, is unlikely to be on Bruce McDonald's Christmas card list. The Kingston RLBC chief executive is one of 20 London borough bosses facing the prospect of budget-setting, in the knowledge that the Government has only awarded them the floor grant increase of 2.7%. For Bruce the challenge is greater because Kingston will be eager to lose its crown for having set the highest council tax in the capital last year, with a Band D rate of &1,449.
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