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McMahon said that failing to change course "would condemn Croydon's residents to a worsening position without an exit strategy" and he was "minded to" send in commissioners to run the council.

Another defendant, Laurent Kraemer, who - along with his gallery - was accused of failing to adequately check the chairs' authenticity before selling them on, were acquitted of deception by gross negligence.

This exchange follows several days of accusations from Moscow that Ukraine was failing to collect the bodies, which Medinsky said had been sitting in refrigerated trucks at an exchange point since Saturday.

"From social care to neighbourhood policing, this Labour government is at risk of failing to deliver the change that people were promised," Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper said.

The trust remains at the centre of the biggest review of maternity failings in NHS history, being led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden.