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Relaxed posture of council and Government is a signal
Government and council will spend “weeks” deciding how to deal with leadership vacuum
Extraordinary? Tonight's council meeting is way more important than that
It would be easy and fun to write this preview of tonight's Oldham council extraordinary meeting as a long-ish riff on the inability of 60 allegedly grown-up elected representatives to sort themselves out, but the briefing published ahead of tonight’s extraordinary council meeting by Alex
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