Leader passes

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09:30AM, Monday 29 December 2025

THE former Conservative leader of Oxfordshire County Council has died.

Ian Hudspeth was first elected in 2005 and led the council from 2012 to 2021.

He died peacefully at the home he shared with his wife and daughter in Bladon, near Woodstock.

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