THE leader of Worcester City Council has spoken of his concern over Brexit leading to more cuts in public finances.

Labour Councillor Adrian Gregson told the Worcester News he was concerned local government could take the brunt of the difficult decisions in future years if the economy contracts.

Funding to town halls from central Government plunged 27 per cent between 2011 and last year, taking the worst hit from the public spending slowdown.

Chancellor George Osborne is also preparing to rip up the Revenue Support Grant (RSG) main funding kitty altogether by 2019, and allow local authorities to retain more of their business rates instead.

But that was before Brexit, and Councillor Gregson said the onus will now be on councils making sure they deliver a strong voice to the Government once a new Prime Minister is in place.

"As a result of Brexit my worry is that we're going to see more cuts in public services," he said.

"We've seen enough cuts in services, my concern is that if the economy slows down we could see more."

Councillor Gregson, who backed Remain, has also hit out at the recent decisions by the likes of Nigel Farage and David Cameron to quit, and Boris Johnson.

"The Government is in complete disarray and two out of the three people involved either way have decided they don't want to be with us," he said.

"It is indescribably wrong, if you look around parliament there seems to be very few principled people around it at the moment."

The Department for Communities and Local Government, which funds councils, took the biggest hit of any department in percentage terms over the last Parliament.

The communities-focused part of its budget was cut in half and direct grants to local government fell by 27 per cent in real terms between 2011 and 2015.