Coatbridge’s MSP has been accused of “misleading the public” by the leader of North Lanarkshire’s Conservative group following comments about their budget vote.Fulton MacGregor wrote in his Advertiser column last week that the local authority’s finances for 2020-2021 – including a 4.84 per cent council tax rise, charges for community alarms, an increased cost for special uplifts and removal of festive lighting – was passed by “Labour councillors, in conjunction with their Tory peers”.Meghan Gallacher, the Conservative group leader, called for an apology after criticising the “fake news” by saying that her party’s budget had not contained any of those measures, but that the SNP’s had; Mr MacGregor responded that the Conservatives “are doing
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