In reference to David Cameron’s appearance in Leeds, the Conservative leader must have to be somewhat phlegmatic to not be riled by its overshadowing by an errant jogger.
After finishing his speech on the ‘northern powerhouse’ the PM strode out into the October sunlight we’re so accustomed to up north and straight into a jogger.
It’s unclear who was more shocked; Mr Cameron who was bundled into a waiting car by his security team or Dean Farley, the runner who was on his way to a gym appointment with a personal trainer.
It would be only in this country that someone could breach the security detail of a senior politician, be bundled to the ground, handcuffed and then stuffed into a van and have no idea what he’d done.
Or rather who he’d run into.
Mr Farley, 28, admitted after the event that he wasn’t really political and resented being described as a protester, when he was just running to the gym with a towel wrapped round his arm.
“I didn’t see David Cameron. I didn’t know it was David Cameron until they let me out of the police van an hour later,” Mr Farley, who was eventually released without charge, said.
Maybe the Tories aren’t making that much headway in the north after all.
