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The council leadership standoff that will determine the future of a Greater Manchester borough
15.05.2024 - 19:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two possible candidates for Oldham council’s leader have emerged after a week of ‘chaotic’ negotiations between the borough’s political groups.
While Labour leader Arooj Shah is working to keep her position at the helm, Lib Dem leader Howard Sykes is ‘confident’ he can find the numbers to mount a leadership bid against her. The Lib Dem boss will be spear-heading a ‘rainbow alliance’ between his group, the Conservatives and the Oldham Group.
After Oldham Council went into no overall control after the elections on May 2, no one group has had an overall majority, leaving the council leadership open to a take-over.
Labour still has the biggest group in the council, with 27 out of the 60 councillors. And Coun Shah automatically remains the leader until the first annual council meeting on May 22.
Coun Shah has told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that Labour will put forward a minority administration, leading the council without an overall majority.
She said: “We acknowledge we will have to work differently. It will require councillors, officers and partners to step up and be open to new ideas, a time for grown-up politics rather than party squabbles.”
The decision came after the Lib Dems rejected a deal with the Labour group yesterday (May 14). The group and their allies could make moves at the meeting next week to dethrone the Labour cabinet.
Councillor Sykes claimed ‘discussions were ongoing’ with other independents and that the aim was ‘not a coalition’ but a ‘pact between people with aligned interests’.
The coalition currently appears to be formed of nine Liberal Democrats, eight Conservatives, and four independents from the Oldham Group, although it is rumoured there could be as many as ten independents
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