'Pay LGA chief less than £170k' says latest candidate for chairmanship

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The next LGA chief executive should be paid less than £170,000', says the second council leader to announce he is standing as next chairman of the LGA. Kensington and Chelsea RLBC leader, Merrick Gockell, told The MJ: 'The big beasts should be the politicians. We don't need a High Street name. It could be an ex-council chief executive or a star of the future, or even someone outside local government.' He said, if elected at the annual conference in Birmingham, he expected an immediate meeting to discuss the post, adding: The LGA is not a council dealing with child protection. If s not that complicated. We can cope very well with an interim for a period if we haven't found anyone by the end of the year.'