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Birmingham City Council’s leader has said he will not be following the chief executive out of the door of the local authority. John Cotton, Labour, who was appointed in May, told �鶹�� WM that he believed it was his responsibility to get the council “back on that road to financial stability”. Chief executive Deborah Cadman announced she would leave her role at the end of the month, despite insisting in January that she had no intention of resigning. Her departure announcement comes just days after Birmingham set its annual budget, aiming to work towards £300m of cuts needed over the next two years. The council has declared effective bankruptcy as it also wrestles with estimated costs of about £1bn connected to equal pay claims and the failed implementation of IT and finance system Oracle.