New Haringey CEO Nick Walkley has taken an £11,000 pay cut with his move from neighbouring authority Barnet.

His new employers confirmed the chief executive, who enjoys a £200,000-a-year salary at Barnet, would be paid £189,000 in his new role.

Critics of the One Barnet programme, which Mr Walkley has worked on with the current administration, have accused him of ‘jumping ship’.