ANY watering-down of rent controls by Scotland’s SNP government would amount to a shameful betrayal of tenants, Scottish Greens said today.

The SNP pledged to deliver rent controls in this parliament and the policy was central to the party’s now-defunct coalition deal with the Greens.

But First Minister John Swinney raised concerns of a reversal last week when he told Holyrood of the need to create “certainty for tenants while also encouraging investment.”