Responding to calls for a wider inquiry, the Scottish government said it was up to councils to consider whether they wanted to follow a "similar course of action" to the Edinburgh investigation.

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But our ability to almost unilaterally determine what course of action we follow, whether it's for a financial problem or for a military problem, is not what it used to be.

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