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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