A cross-party group will look at how East Renfrewshire Council can help residents struggling with the cost of living after councillors promised not to “stand by and ignore hardships”.
SNP councillors wanted the council to call on the UK Government to scrap energy price cap rises, bring in a further windfall tax, extended to include all large businesses which made “significant profits” during the pandemic, and roll out an energy price cap for small and medium size firms.
In a motion, Cllr Tony Buchanan, the SNP group leader, said the “Conservative cost of living crisis is spiralling out of control due to continuing damaging decisions imposed by Westminster”, including austerity cuts, tax hikes and Brexit.
