North Ayrshire’s backroom coalition was aired in full public view as the council’s SNP administration ditched their own budget motion to adopt the Tory group’s budget.
That was the sensational claim from North Ayrshire Labour following Wednesday's budget showdown.
The party said in a statement: “During a 45-minute recess, the SNP council leader walked past the Labour group room to do a backroom deal with the Conservative group to pass a council budget that cuts anti-poverty initiatives, reduces the nutritional standards of school meals and remortgages the region’s PFI schools to delay implementing the SNP government’s cuts to the council’s budget.
