British Prime Minister Theresa May struggled to deliver her keynote speech to the Conservative Party's annual conference on Wednesday, repeatedly coughing and losing her voice.
British Prime Minister Theresa May struggled to deliver her keynote speech to the Conservative Party's annual conference on Wednesday, repeatedly coughing and losing her voice.
With the party members applauding to keep May going, she had to stop on several occasions to drink water and take a cough sweet which she said came from Chancellor Philip Hammond.
"Shows what good the chancellor's cough sweet is," she said, as she continued to attempt to give her speech.
Earlier in the speech she was heckled by a protester who held up a P45 paper in front of her, a document handed out to employees leaving a job.
British comedian Simon Brodkin, who uses the stage name Lee Nelson, handed May a P45 letter - a document given to employees when they leave their job - as she gave her speech to Conservative supporters.
As he was bundled out of the hall, May briefly stopped speaking before the party faithful stood to cheer her.
Brodkin quipped that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is widely believed to have ambitions to be prime minister himself, had told him to hand the P45 to May as he was escorted out of the conference hall by security guards.
"Boris told me to hand her a P45," he told Reuters. "He didn't tell me why. He wanted me to do it."
Writing on his Twitter feed shortly afterwards, Brodkin said: "Hi @BorisJohnson, I gave Theresa her P45 just like you asked."
Police said Brodkin had been arrested but later released. "The man had legitimate accreditation which granted him access to the conference site," said Chief Superintendent John O’Hare. "In light of this we will be reviewing the accreditation process with the Conservative Party."
Last year the comedian interrupted a media conference by Trump at his Scottish golf course by rolling golf balls towards him emblazoned with swastikas and in 2015 showered Blatter with fake paper money at a briefing with reporters.
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