Aberdeen City Council: Laing sole leader after Lumsden becomes MSP Labour councillor Jenny Laing has become the sole leader of Aberdeen City Council.
She has co-led the administration in recent years along side Conservative member Douglas Lumsden.
But Mr Lumsden has now been elected as an MSP for the north-east and stood down from his council co-leader role as a result - though he remains a councillor for the city.
Fellow Tory Ryan Houghton had then put himself forward to replace Mr Lumsden. However, he withdrew his nomination, after a backlash over posts he made on a blog several years ago on topics including the Holocaust - for which he was previously suspended by his party.
Tory Ryan Houghton drops bid to be Aberdeen council co-leader
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image captionRyan Houghton was chosen to be the leader of the Conservative group at Aberdeen City Council
A Conservative councillor has withdrawn a bid to become the co-leader of Aberdeen City Council after a row about alleged inappropriate comments.
Ryan Houghton was set to take on the role after being chosen as Tory group leader by his party on Sunday.
However objections were raised as he was previously suspended by the party over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments.
Mr Houghton said his nomination had now become a distraction in the city.