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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

So the new MP for Kingswood after yesterday's by elections, Damian Egan, has been mocked this week for

apparently changing his accent from when he was the mayor of Lewisham to now holding the seat of Kingswood. Have a

listen to this. Our borough is lucky that we've got one the highest number of

small independent businesses in the whole of London. And when work took me to

London, I work my way up to become the whole of London. And when work took me to London, I work my way up to become the Mayor of Lewisham.

So there does seem to be a change in accent.

Now all of this has got us here at the Coffey House shots team thinking, do accents still matter in politics?

There's a story matter and if so, why does it matter?

I'm Cindy and I'm joined today by our political correspondent James Hill and author, former cabinet minister and MP for midbedfisher, Nadeen Doris.

So Nadeen, this is a question that you've commented on before. In fact, in your resignation letter after the List Trust became Prime Minister, you thanked Boris Johnson for never judging your accent.

Had that been a frequent occurrence from other parts of the Commons?

When I arrived in Westminster, I talked like that all the time and that's how I talked

and my first PMQs I asked my question like that and Tony Blair leaned into Jack's jaw and he went who is that and you can actually see it on the clip on the film and that's because my accent at the time was really rare.

Nobody talked like that in Westman's done, nobody.

And instead of me, and I don't know how it's happened instead of me teaching everyone else in Westman says a talk like that

I started talking like them so now I don't talk in a West Coast accent

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