Let me just say, we've done these events in partnership with Conservative homes since, I think, 2016 now.

And I don't say this very often.

They are a pleasure to work with.

And we look forward to this event every year.

I think in case George Osborne gets offended, the difference between Lee and him is that Osborne held the jobs at the same time, whereas...

Which leader, you're not still a minor, are you?

No, all right.

I'm not going to introduce you because everyone knows who you are, but you've spent a bit of time at this conference talking about history, talking about Margaret Thatcher, talking about your, what, if this was the X-Factor,

we'd call your journey.

Just thinking back to the 70s and 80s, what did she do wrong in terms of communities like yours? I mean, looking back now, was it wrong

to close the pits or was it wrong to leave those communities afterwards? What would you have done

differently? Well, before I start, Annan, I just want to go back to the award that I want to. Yeah, I want

to just remind you that I got the Conham Backbencher of the Year award last year,

which I'm very proud of. But the year before I got an even bigger award, which you might not be

aware of, and that was the Daily Mirror's Worst Man in Britain. And that was a much...

So, I'd say that's a better award for me. Well, congratulations. I just thought I'd drop that

in there. Maggie, I mean, I was a coal mine. me. Well, congratulations. I just thought I'd drop that in there.

Maggie, I mean, I was a coal miner.

I was brought up in the 1970s, and you probably heard me say this before,

we was brought up on a strict political diet of Skinner, Scargo, and Tony Benn.

That's what you listened to in our house.

My dad was a coal miner, all my uncles were coal miners, my granddad's, great granddaads, everybody worked down the pit, and all the women worked in the factory.

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