A split rainbow coalition is hanging onto power on Dumfries and Galloway Council – however opposition councillors insist that the arrangement is in “disarray”.
Cracks have appeared in the SNP-Labour-Lib Dems-independent collective which has run the council administration for the last eight months and this led to a reshuffle of the power positions at a specially-called meeting on Friday.
With Labour and SNP being fierce rivals at national level, the local Labour group appear to be distancing themselves from their coalition partners when it comes to local government leadership.
