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Daily Record
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Politics
Paul Hutcheon

'Flip flopping' Douglas Ross backed a workplace parking charge for staff when he was a councillor

Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross has been accused of “blatant hypocrisy” over past support for a workplace parking tax he now opposes.

Ross has been left red-faced after he once proposed raising £58,000 a year by charging council staff to park their cars at work.

Opposition to the workplace parking levy agreed in 2019, which would allow councils to tax spaces provided by employers, is central to Ross’ Tory council election campaign.

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