It’s likely to have been the last official letter sent by Ross Willmott bearing the title Leader of the Council.

Dated March 24, a ‘thank you’ letter was sent out to various figures across the city listing his achievements, including High Cross, Curve and Phoenix Square.

He says his time as leader has been an “amazing” and his only wish is that his work carries on.

It also offered some choice words of warning to his successor Veejay Patel:

“I hope that my successors continue in the same spirit of excellence and ambition and remember the words of Marcus Aurelius: ‘It is the fate of princes to be ill thought of for well doing.”

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