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Councillor denies use of degrading slur to leader
Manchester Evening News
|September 19, 2025
A COUNCIL meeting in Oldham was aborted after a councillor was accused of using an "extremely offensive and sexually degrading" word towards the town hall leader.
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The meeting on Wednesday was first adjourned when councillors started shouting over each other during a motion on recognising the state of Palestine and famine in Gaza.
As councillors prepared to leave the chamber, another argument broke out. It is alleged a slur was used against council leader Arooj Shah.
This story is from the September 19, 2025 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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