THERE is “no reason” why Council Tax should be redesigned at the same time as Scotland’s councils, the SNP Cabinet minister in charge of the sweeping project has said.
Speaking to The National Podcast from the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Public Service Reform Secretary Ivan McKee also ruled out introducing metropolitan mayors in Scotland, opened the door to creating potentially hundreds of community bodies and said that plans for sweeping reforms of local government could both lay the foundations for independence and help to combat the rise of the far right.
