Theresa May walks on stage at Tory conference dancing “like a demented windmill”

After busting a few moves in South Africa a couple of months go, it seems old Theresa’s got her groove back, as the Prime Minister walked onto stage at the Tory conference dancing to ABBA.

Arriving on stage for her keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Theresa May entered swaying and bobbing to Abba’s Dancing Queen like she was trippin’ on acid, and there was no stopping her.

While May utilised the beginning of her conference speech to poke fun at the widespread mockery her dancing antics attracted during a recent South Africa and Kenya trips in August, her ‘fresh’ moves drew even further laughter from the audience at the International Convention Centre (ICC). This was followed by wholesale mockery of the debacle on social media.

As she began her speech by reminding everyone about last year’s embarrassingly disastrous conference delivery – which was dogged by persistent coughing, a backdrop that fell apart behind her and the delivery of a ‘P45’ from a prankster mid-speech – May used humour to downplay any threats of failure this time around.

“Can I just say, you will have to excuse me if I do cough during the speech. I’ve been up all night super-glueing the backdrop,” she told conference.

While fellow Tories took to Twitter to describe Theresa May’s dancing as “classy” and “totally brill”, Labour’s Diane Abbott – who May mentioned while addressing the issue of the level of abuse that MPs and their families received – was not so impressed.

“Whoever thought that was a good idea should be sacked. I am looking at you Robbie Gibb,” wrote Abbott, referring to Downing Street’s Director of Communications.

A Twitter user commented: “She entered the Tory Party Conference swaggering to ABBA’s Dancing Queen, waving her arms about like a demented windmill.”

Watch Theresa May bust some moves in Birmingham below:

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