Can Labour really sweep away the capping of council budgets and compulsory competitive tendering for local services, and still keep the public finances in order?

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Piotr Uszok, the mayor of Katowice, Poland, says he is delighted with the smarter-city advice he received this year and hopes that IBM will take part in the (happily) competitive tendering for projects that are the fruit of this volunteering.

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However after a nine-week hearing Mr Justice Supperstone accepted that the council was entitled to bring the competitive tendering exercise to a close and then to develop the arena itself when other bids were found not to be good value for money.

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