The SNP in Glasgow has been accused of "Hollywood fakery" for going on a cleaning blitz of the city ahead of the council elections next week.
Scottish Labour's Malcolm Cunning, who is the party's group leader in the city, took aim at the Nationalists for a "staged clean-up".
Voters head to the polls next week, May 5, and Glasgow is one of the council areas to watch with the SNP looking to hold onto to power.
Cunning told the Scottish Express : "Glasgow is often used as a film set, but an SNP staged clean-up is taking Hollywood fakery to a whole new level.
"It should not take an election campaign to force the SNP administration to clean up our streets.
"Cleansing is a fundamental part of running a council - not something that you wheel out at election time.
“Scottish Labour have focused our campaign on the need for cleaner, greener, Glasgow.
"We have successfully shamed the SNP into this half-hearted clean-up operation. A cynical and hollow move by Susan Aitken’s administration."
Ahead of the COP26 climate conference last year Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken was branded "out of touch" after saying the city needed a "spruce up".
In the lead up to the conference in November the SNP-led council was on the receiving end of criticism over pictures showing piles of rubbish on streets and graffiti on buildings.
At the time she said: "I don't believe the streets are filthy.
"I think there are patches that are problematic. I think there are patches that need to targeted, but by and large when I'm walking about as I do all the time, the problems I see are to do with commercial waste much of which is not the responsibility of the council.
"I think Glasgow needs a spruce up as we emerge from covid."
Following the comments Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar tweeted: "Susan Aitken is out of touch. Glasgow deserves better."
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