We will never sleep again after Reform mayor performs self-penned song Insomniac
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We’re just hours into the UK’s month-long party conference season, but Reform has already delivered what will surely be its most bizarre moment.
There were gasps when the party’s Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire Dame Andrea Jenkyns walked out on the main stage in a sparkly jumpsuit featuring an enormous Union flag brooch.
But it was what happened next that truly stunned the crowd.
The music playing as she walked out was an eighties-style power ballad that nobody in Birmingham’s NEC seemed to recognise.
That was until Jenkyns, formerly a Conservative who lost her seat at the 2024 general election, flung out her arms and started singing along.
‘I’m an insomniac, I’m an insomniac, staring at the ceiling, waiting for my thoughts to switch off,’ she belted out.
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Bringing the baffling moment to an end after one go around of the chorus, the mayor began her speech asking: ‘Now, is this god-awful Labour government giving you sleepless nights and insomnia too?’
The song was called ‘Insomniac’, and Jenkyns revealed to the crowd it was co-written by none other than herself ‘over 20 years ago’.
Jenkyns told the crowd she was not trying to be a ‘Geri Halliwell tribute act’ in her jumpsuit (Picture: Jacob King/PA Wire)
She continued: ‘At the time, I was in a rock band, and I was always a bit of a rebel.
‘Then I became a Conservative MP and I dressed more demure, though the rebel was still bubbling away under the surface.’
This, apparently, explained her decision to perform an otherwise completely irrelevant tune to attendees who appeared unsure of how to react.
Jenkyns was the second speaker of the day on the conference’s main stage, coming straight after the welcome address by party chairman David Bull.
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