Leicester Mercury political correspondent
Out of sorts
Ross Grant made a decent fist of his budget amendment presentation this week – he even did a bit of a web-launch – but I was more concerned with his performance after he’d spoken at full council on Wednesday.
The usual cut-and-thrust of full council means partisan attacks are bandied back and forth, but digs at Ross (example – “there are lots of interesting and useful things on the internet, then there’s Ross Grant’s blog”) didn’t seem to stir the Conservative leader this time round. He barely raised his eyebrow at the blog attack.
Had Ross Grant discovered Buddhism? Perhaps he’d signed up as a Quaker.
“I’ve gone about three days without sleep,” he admitted after the meeting, with a bleary-eyed expression presumably last seen in the excesses of his student days. All down to his work, it seems, which can involve a lot of travel and uncomfortable hotels.
All good experience for when he become a father later this year…
