- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by Barnie Choudhury IN MY favourite book, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a father imparts a pearl of wisdom to his son about bravery, saying courage is “when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what”. When the Conservative peer Baroness Sandip Verma ran against the incumbent Leicester Labour mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, she knew it was a task of Everest proportions. But she did it anyway, knowing that they weigh Labour votes in Leicester, rather than count them, because she wanted local democracy to count. That’s bravery. Equally…
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