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Edinburgh Live
National
Donald Turvill

Edinburgh Labour cling on to power at city council thanks to backing from Tories

Labour will remain in control of Edinburgh City Council following a failed bid by opposition councillors to oust them from power.

The minority ruling group, who have been in administration for just under a year, were able to continue running the council thanks to support from the Tories and Lib Dems.

The SNP said there had been a "cataclysmic failure of leadership" in the capital in the last 12 months, and were backed by the Greens in a vote to dissolve the administration and form a new one next month.

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