Liverpool Labour and the wider party should never have let this happen

The Labour leadership have supported the government sending commissioners into the City of Liverpool following the shocking Caller report into corruption there. As someone who has edited more than a few reports on local government in my time, I can tell you that they are rarely as blockbuster or as gripping as this one. Labour had no choice but to follow suit. But the important question is what they do next. Accepting the commissioners has to be the first line of a whole new approach to local government by the Labour Party – led from the top but delivered at all levels of the party.