'Rubbish': Labour claims it didn't help Tories take power over Scottish council

Brian McGinley, a South Ayrshire Labour councillor, claimed Labour's abstention which allowed the Tories to form a minority administration was not intentional

THE SNP group leader in South Ayrshire has blasted a Labour councillor’s claims that they didn’t abstain in order to put the Tories in power as “rubbish”.

Peter Henderson, the previous SNP council leader for South Ayrshire, told The National that his Labour colleagues on the authority “knew fine well” what they were doing by abstaining and allowing a Tory minority administration to take over.