COUGH TWEETS
Theresa May mocks her excruciating coughing fit during Tory conference with tweet of her speech surrounded by medicine
THERESA May has mocked her crippling coughing fit with a tweet about her excruciating and shambolic Tory conference speech this morning.
After she was interrupted by prankster Simon Brodkin, who handed her a P45 he said Boris Johnson had given him, she broke down and lost her voice during her keynote address to delegates in Manchester.
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Things got so bad she had to a take several breaks, stopping mid-sentence to drink from her glass of water as she struggled through.
At one point her Chancellor Philip Hammond went up and handed her a lozenge, as the audience cheered and clapped to try and help her through it.
The Prime Minister managed to at least make a joke, telling the Tory faithful: "I hope you noticed that - the Chancellor giving something away for free.”
But after she broke down again, she struggled out: “See, you can’t get something for nothing.
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“The Chancellor will probably tell me there’s a price to pay in a minute.”
And later, after taking yet another break, she said: “Show’s how good the Chancellor’s cough sweets are.”
After she finally managed to finish up she posted a tweet with the copy of the speech next to her red box, surrounded by cough medicine.
It was captioned simply with the word ";cough".
It was the second major issue to overshadow Mrs May’s crucial speech, which was an attempt to wrestle back control of the narrative after a week of in-fighting.
Having meant to be about her plans to renew social housing and her controversial energy cap, it will now go down as the most sensational conference speech in years - but for all the wrong reasons.
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