Resumen de How the servants became masters: the rise of the public sector

• Public sector legal chiefs have turned local authority cuts to their advantage by creating liberalised in-house teams with the expertise to rival private practice.

  Modern austerity Britain has sent a blisteringly harsh wind sweeping through the corridors of town and county councils.

  Whitehall-imposed cuts on local authorities in England, according to a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report published this spring, broadly resulted in a real terms budget slashing of some 27 per cent between 2010 and 2015. And some areas - such as planning and discretionary social care - were scythed by 45 per cent.