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When Valenzuela Jr. stood at the wooden lectern, he spoke only in Spanish, trying to hold back tears.

Don’t go on too long and talk to the country, and not just the party, is the mission statement for the winner in front of the lectern.

The King had just walked away from a lectern to rejoin Queen Camilla sitting on the stage when Thorpe started shouting as she walked forwards from the back of the assembly.

Both the prime minister and the chancellor have already appeared in front of lecterns branded “Fixing the Foundations” – an attempt to highlight what they claim is the mess they inherited from the Conservatives.

“The heart of an athlete was the direct quote from my cardiologist,” Harbaugh told reporters, smiling and flexing at the lectern.