The “ultimate public servant”, a beacon of kindness and a comfort to the grieving is how Queen Elizabeth II has been remembered by councillors in Leeds.
The city’s politicians united to pay tribute to the late monarch at Civic Hall at a specially convened meeting on Wednesday.
Amid a markedly sombre atmosphere in the Hall’s usually raucous council chamber, the Queen was hailed as the “mother of the nation” who was the UK’s one “constant” across her 70 years on the throne.
