Fellow councillors-turned-MSPs, the SNP’s Jackie Dunbar and Audrey Nicoll, are understood to be doing the same.
Shift in power sharing arrangement
Aberdeen Labour leader Mrs Laing has already served as council leader during the previous council session – when her group was the largest within the ruling coalition.
She replaced now Lord Provost Barney Crockett as leader in 2014, remaining in place until after the 2017 election while the legal practicalities of installing co-leaders were ironed out.
Mrs Laing said she was “delighted” with the unanimous agreement to the new allocation of the top positions and said she would focus on Aberdeen’s “social and economic recovery” from Covid-19.
Aberdeen City Council: Laing sole leader after Lumsden becomes MSP Labour councillor Jenny Laing has become the sole leader of Aberdeen City Council.
She has co-led the administration in recent years along side Conservative member Douglas Lumsden.
But Mr Lumsden has now been elected as an MSP for the north-east and stood down from his council co-leader role as a result - though he remains a councillor for the city.
Fellow Tory Ryan Houghton had then put himself forward to replace Mr Lumsden. However, he withdrew his nomination, after a backlash over posts he made on a blog several years ago on topics including the Holocaust - for which he was previously suspended by his party.