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Sunday Mercury
|May 11, 2025
MAX CALLER, the lead commissioner Birmingham City Council, has been named as the man who fixes broken councils, and has modestly described himself as 'the poster boy for best value'.
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When he was the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Hackney, Max Caller and his team completed a survey of the residents to understand their feelings about the authority. He commented “It was fascinating. They uniformly said the council was terrible. It didn’t collect the bins...”
Does this have a familiar ring about it?
This story is from the May 11, 2025 edition of Sunday Mercury.
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