EVERY one of Scotland’s 32 council leaders has backed a motion calling the Scottish Budget a “massive real-terms cut in councils’ core funding”.
The local authority heads met at a Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) summit on Friday to discuss the newly announced Budget, which was presented to parliament by interim Finance Secretary John Swinney on Thursday afternoon.
Swinney announced a raft of headline policies, including the rising of Scottish-controlled benefits in line with inflation (10.1%), increasing the top rate of tax on the highest earners, and a temporary scrapping of peak time fares on rail travel.
