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Edinburgh Live
National
Donald Turvill

Edinburgh council seized by Labour after support from Tories to shut out SNP

Labour have seized control of Edinburgh council, and will lead the city as a minority administration for the next five years.

Councillors voted 32 votes to 29 in favour of the group taking control of the local authority, as proposals were backed unanimously by the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives at a full council meeting on Thursday (May 26).

However, not all on the Labour benches were in support of their party seizing power in the capital as two members abstained from voting.

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