Outraged SNP politicians in Edinburgh have said Labour's plan to secure control of the council with Tory votes is "unthinkable", and called for assurances there will be no cooperation "of any kind" between the parties.
Nationalist MSPs and MPs including Angus Robertson and Joanna Cherry wrote to Edinburgh's Labour leader Cllr Cammy Day yesterday after it emerged Labour's plan for a minority administration - that would fall 19 seats shy of the 32 needed for overall control - will be supported by Liberal Democrat councillors when a vote is held on Thursday (May 26).
Although the Tories are yet to make their position clear, backing from at least seven of the nine Conservatives in the Chambers would pass the motion and see the proposed 29-seat SNP-Green coalition defeated.
