He said the local authority could not continue to go about its budgeting and financial planning in the same way. Council leader Nick Adams-King said no one was pretending the problem had disappeared but insisted the existing plan was working. The outturn report confirmed this requirement had dropped to £20.7 million by the end of the financial year. He said: “It is a smaller than expected raid on reserves and it shows a council that is still in unambiguous financial crisis and it is more than external pressures. Cllr Adams-King said there had not been a recovery but the council was also not in an “unambiguous financial crisis”.