After weeks of fraught meetings, phones ringing off the hook and accusations flying online, Oldham council’s leadership has been decided for the next two years. Labour leader Arooj Shah clung on to her leadership by one vote at the first council meeting since the local election .
Councillor Shah remains at the helm - but that doesn’t mean nothing has changed. Part of her win is thanks to negotiations with independent councillors, who she says will now have a much bigger say in the council chambers.Speaking to the MEN after the meeting, Coun Shah said she’d taken the last election as a sign to ‘stop, reflect and listen’.“And there are elected people who now have a mandate to represent those areas.
“It’s a really exciting time for more consensus politics,” she said. “I’m welcoming the opportunity for more independent decisions in my leadership team.” The exception to this is budgets and No Confidence votes, according to Shaw councillor Marc Hince, who told the LDRS he was looking forward to a ‘Labour leadership held accountable by true independents’.
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