Shropshire Council's Conservative administration is accused of making the authority 'a laughing stock'.
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While the vote at a full council meeting last week did not commit the authority to the action green-lit by members, a row followed.Blaming the Conservative-led administration, Labour called for some cabinet members to resign. The error saw backing for additional borrowing to cover a "funding gap" in the cost of the proposed road. But the approved sum had the project's total bill soaring from previous estimates of £87m to £182m.
While Conservative members voted to approve the changes, the authority's director of finance James Walton later confirmed the sum was a "holding figure" on a spreadsheet that should have been deleted.
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