Meeting set as Tory councillors bid to grab power at Stirling Council
Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Since 2017 the council administration has been an SNP/Labour coalition, originally comprising of nine SNP and four Labour councillors, with the opposition consisting of eight Tories, one Green councillor and one independent.Now, however, the SNP has been reduced to seven councillors after one member - Maureen Bennison - joined the Alba Party, while the recent Forth and Endrick by-election following the death of SNP councillor Graham Lambie was won by a Scottish Conservative candidate.SNP councillor Evelyn Tweed was recently elected as Stirling’s MSP but chose not to step down from the council and is carrying out both roles.The Conservatives now sit at nine members with SNP on seven,