FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to “intervene” in Glasgow’s budget as the city faces a shortfall of around £100 million.

Councillors will meet tomorrow to set the budget with cuts looming across departments.

All the political parties can put forward their proposals to balance the budget and say where they would find the savings needed.

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The Labour group on the council has said it will not be proposing a budget, stating it will not take part in a process that imposes more cuts.

The group’s leader George Redmond and deputy leader Soryia Siddique have written to the First Minister.

They said: “This Thursday’s council budget is like no other the city has faced, and we need your urgent intervention.”

The councillors asked the city’s MPs and MSPs to pledge to protect the council’s resources.

They asked “elected members” to “protect the Integrated Joint Board (IJB) budget and to ensure sufficient resources are made available to ensure that there will be ‘no breach of statutory duties’ contained in options decided by the IJB".

They want a pledge to “support the city council to ensure that the budget provides adequate resources to support our schools and our children’s education”.

And to “sustain and maintain resources to enable Glasgow City Council to protect services".

Redmond said: “This shameful budget is nowhere near enough for our city. We would be forced to choose between areas of equal, desperate need.

"It would set family against family, child against child and community against community. Labour will not stand for that.

“Instead, Labour will stand with our citizens in fighting this and tell the Scottish Government that after £400m of cuts to our city budget in the last 10 years, enough is enough.”

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An SNP spokesperson said: "Councillor Redmond has already declared that Labour is abdicating all responsibility to put forward any solutions to the considerable challenges that record rates of inflation and Tory economic mismanagement have caused for our city budget.

"Unless he's changed his mind, his stunts and posturing aren't going to cut it.

"In the meantime, the SNP City Administration continues to work to protect our services as much as possible while making the case directly to Scottish Government for the resources Glasgow needs."

Redmond also urged the Greens to adopt the same stance.

He added: “I am calling on the Glasgow Green group to stand beside Labour and fight for Glasgow.”

Meanwhile, the Greens said increased funding is vital to protect services.

Councillor Martha Wardrop, co-leader of the Green Councillors Group, said: “The reality of the current financial settlement for local authorities paints a bleak picture for Glasgow and those living here. 

“On Wednesday, our councillors will highlight the impact of devastating cuts if no action is taken to increase funding to councils. 

“We need all of Glasgow’s elected representatives at all levels of Government to come together and work for constructive solutions to the funding crisis we are facing.” 

A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “The Scottish Government recognises the crucial role councils and their employees play in our communities across Scotland and the challenging financial circumstances they face.

“Ministers have received representations on the budget settlement from local authorities, including Glasgow City Council, and will respond in due course.

“The Scottish Government’s settlements from the UK Government have suffered a decade of austerity with average real terms cuts of over 5%, equating to a loss of £18 billion.

“Despite this, Scottish ministers have listened to councils and are increasing the resources available to local government in 2023-24 by more than £570m, a real-terms increase of £160.6m or 1.3%, compared to the 2022-23 budget figures.”