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Liberal Democrats have coalition “wobble”

By The Voice | Sat 27th September 2014 - 4:16 pm

That got your attention, didn’t it?

The Liberal Democrats nearly walked out of the coalition this week.

That would be the Coalition that runs Highland Council, where we are currently have 13 Councillors and share power in a rainbow coalition with 31 SNP and 8 Labour members. This week, there was a possibility for a while that we would walk away from that Coalition and form a new one with the independents, with whom we had been in power before the previous council election.

Liberal Democrat Group Leader David Alston explained to the Inverness Courier what it was all about:

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Mick Taylor
@TristanWard. I have never been Mike my entire life. Please don’t take it upon yourself to unilaterally change my name...
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