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This is what happens if you don’t get paperwork sorted on time in an election…

The Leicester Mercury reports:

A guide to the city mayoral election has been published without information about one of the leading candidates.

Tory Ross Grant is missing from the Your Vote Matters booklet, which has been sent to all 229,777 voters in the city.

The 11 people hoping to be elected mayor were invited to pay £250 to submit an address with details about themselves, their policies and why people should vote for them.

Councillor Grant did not provide any information and has been excluded …

He declined to tell the Leicester Mercury why he failed to submit anything for the booklet but it is

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