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Kathryn Anderson

Council calls for "adequate" funding following Scottish Government's sanctions threat

Perth and Kinross Council has expressed "extreme displeasure and frustration" at being threatened with financial sanctions by the Scottish Government rather than being given "adequate" funding.

SNP council leader Grant Laing has agreed to write to Scottish Government ministers Shirley-Anne Somerville and John Swinney conveying this but called it "political opportunism" by Conservatives.

The emergency motion - tabled by the Conservatives - was unanimously supported following Shirley-Anne Somerville's financial threat to Scotland's councils earlier this week.

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