Labour Suspends Councillor For Falling Asleep During Child Sexual Exploitation Meeting

It’s goodnight sweet prince for yet another Labour councillor in Rotherham. Councillor Alan Atkin was attending a briefing on child sexual exploitation yesterday when he decided to have a snooze. Guido hears his loud snores reverberated throughout the chamber for at least two minutes …

Atkin’s defence may not have cut the mustard with party leadership:

“I put it down to my age and my weight… I have probably got sleep amnesia or something… If it hadn’t been for the subject matter we were talking about it wouldn’t be a story.