Bankrupt Slough could raise council tax by 20% and be forced to sell off assets

Local authority told to offload thousands of assets including council houses in stark report, a year after declaring bankruptcy

A bankrupt local authority could have to raise council tax by 20% a year and will be forced to sell off thousands of homes and other assets under unprecedented" plans imposed on it after it ran up catastrophic debts amid overspending running into hundreds of millions of pounds.

The scale of the financial and management chaos at Labour-run Slough council is revealed in a stark report by a team of government commissioners sent in to run the authority after it declared effective bankruptcy a year ago.