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We all thought Theresa May was cursed.

She infamously coughed her way through her Tory conference speech while the backdrop fell apart behind her.

Nine months later, it turns out things are worse than we thought.

It's a recurring nightmare.

The Prime Minister was barely a minute in to a speech at a Westminster summer party last night when the entire set started collapsing in the breeze - and had to be valiantly held upright by staff.

"Are there any letters falling down behind me?" she cut in during a serious speech about the future of Conservatism.

"It’s the entire set falling down behind me!"

As the crowd of MPs and journalists chuckled along at the Policy Exchange think tank, Mrs May admitted she might have to "speed up".

Despite the setback, she quickly recovered her resolve.

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The PM used her speech to insist "the real intellectual energy is on the centre-right", and urged Tories to "remain the optimists" rather than "taking refuge in the failed policies of the past".

She also cracked a joke at her limelight-loving Environment Secretary's expense.

"This is something of a collectors’ event," she said.

"A centre-right think tank reception where Michael Gove is NOT the guest speaker!"