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Great to see you. By the way, you must be shattered, Christopher. I've been in America, straight down to London today
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It's been crazy for you, hasn't it? Yes, I really am. I mean, it's great to see you
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I can't hear anything. OK. Dame Andrew, can you hear me now
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OK. That song you were singing there was called I'm an Insomniac
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I need to know, did you write it yourself? Were you singing to a live band
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And will you release it on Spotify? Yes. I actually wrote it 20 years ago, Christopher
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I'm showing my age now. And I needed to look for some music that was copyright free
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And I wanted something a bit rocky, you know, because I'm a natural rock chick
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And I thought of that. and I thought really the theme is Britain sleepwalking into disaster
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we've all got insomnia, but reform are there to wake up the country
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and save Britannia. So that's what the whole theme was. And that dress, or that trouser suit, looked extraordinary
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I mean, you've really... You've lifted the pace of politics, haven't you
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I last saw you singing on the stage when you sang Jerusalem, I think
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during the Brexit campaign? Yes. Absolutely. The outfit was from my
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50th birthday last year I have not worn it since Any excuse as a girly girl to glamour Thanks for bearing with us for this delay talking to you in Birmingham
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We do appreciate it, Dame Andrea. How have you found that confidence? You, of course, went to many Conservative Party conferences in the past
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It looks more like some kind of pop show, a rock concert of some sort
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It looks quite unlike what normal party conferences are like. I mean, really, I mean, me singing, it was impromptu because it was actually playing the song that I wrote all those years ago
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And I just thought, oh, what the heck, just sing. And look, the energy, Christopher, is amazing
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I mean, look, I came here last year, as you know, I saw you here on a press pass
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So I wanted to see what it was like. And I was caught by that reform wave
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I then went briefly last year to the Conservative conference. and it's like a, I don't know, it's like going to a funeral actually
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and the energy, the belief in our country is amazing and I think that where we're seeing people putting flags up
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all around the country, I think that's a cry for help that look, us British people, we want to be heard
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and reform our listening, Christopher. Well Dame Andrea, thank you for joining us tonight
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and before we go to our break, will you sing us out please? Of course I will, okay
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Do you want the same song? Yes. Go on then. I'm an insomniac, I'm an insomniac, staring at the ceiling, waiting for my thoughts to switch off
