Heated exchanges in Town Hall Chamber as ‘farcical’ row breaks out

It started with a motion by Nadim Muslim in which he suggested the council ought to condemn Keir Starmer for his approach to housebuilding.

The thrust of the motion by Cllr Muslim, a Bromley Cross councillor for the Conservative Group since 2018, was about the intention to build on the Green Belt. Mr Starmer addressed this issue in an interview with the Bolton News this year.

In it he suggested the Labour Group “wrangled” control…