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Cllr Arooj Shah

Cllr Arooj Shah is the leader of Oldham Council in Greater Manchester and Chair of Labour’s National Constitutional Committee. She holds various national positions including being a commissioner on the Gordon Brown Commission on the UK’s future.
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Cllr Arooj Shah

Breaking the Class Ceiling 

For too long, talent has been held back by a ‘class ceiling’ which is less transparent and more resilient than many care to admit. It is a ceiling which doesn’t just limit individual ambition; it limits our country’s potential. And nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in the towns and cities across

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Oldham: Proud, Ambitious and Together.

In recent years, the forces of identity politics have threatened to divide communities across our nation. This approach, at its most basic and harmful, seeks to put us against each other, fostering fear, resentment and mistrust. It’s become the preferred approach of populists seeking political support rather than creating meaningful

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