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Leadership hopeful Kerr favours scrapping council tax

SCOTTISH LABOUR LEADERSHIP: Interim measure would see water charges and other cuts to ease financial burden By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor

A candidate in the race to become Labour's next Holyrood leader has committed himself to abolishing the council tax.

Andy Kerr, the former health minister, wants to ditch the successor to the poll tax and replace it with a reformed system based on property.