A NEW Oxford City Council leader will be elected by Labour Party councillors tonight. Insiders have tipped the current deputy leader, Susan Brown, as the favourite to take over Bob Price, who has served as council leader since 2008. Ms Brown is also a senior communications manager and the head of stakeholder engagement at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Other favourites are understood to include, Alex Hollingsworth, who is a former council leader and is, like Ms Brown, a member of its executive board. But it is understood Mr Hollingsworth, who runs his own publishing business in Jericho, is also completing a PhD at Oxford Brookes University and is wary of how taking up the new role could impact on his time. Councillors will meet at Oxford Town Hall tonight for a private meeting to choose the Labour Party group’s new leader. Other contenders are thought include the council’s former deputy leader and current board member for finance, Ed Turner, and board member for leisure, parks and sport, Linda Smith. The only councillor to have formally declared their candidacy to the Oxford Mail is David Henwood, a design and technology teacher and councillor for Cowley since winning a by-election… Read full this story
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