A warm, ungrudging transfer of a role or title, in which the outgoing holder publicly wishes the incoming one well. Jonathan Bailey’s advice to his successor is a model gracious handover, full of humour about the attention the new man is about to receive. The tone matters: it keeps a light-hearted franchise feeling kind rather than competitive. It is the tone his own predecessor set, and Bailey clearly intends to continue the tradition properly.
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