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Coming up, Council Fat Cats, a bombshell new report, finds a record number of town hall staff

pocketing more than £150,000 a year.

Refugee runaround, Sulella Bravman's Rwandan homes for deported UK migrants are being sold to locals

as the Conservative policy continues to flounder.

And a top bank boss has moaned as companies being corporately bullied over being sold to locals as the Conservative policy continues to flounder.

And a top bank boss has moaned as companies being corporately bullied over its bizarre name change.

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Now, how about this? A shameful 188 council fatats are earning more than 165,000 pounds a year,

making them richer than Rishi Sunak. And a record number of making over 150,000 pounds.

There's at least 829 of them. The head of campaigns at the Taxpayers Alliance,

which crunch these numbers, is Elliot Keck. He joins me now.

Elliot, very good

evening to you. Welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham. This is quite staggering

news, isn't it, given particularly the backdrop that we've got of so many councils claiming

they've run out of money, they're having a head to the bankruptcy court, they're going

to have to put council tax up by as much as 20%, maybe more. I mean, it's absolutely extraordinary. How many of

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