“…would someone really wear a hat, when they are indoors, giving a keynote speech ?”
Arthur Scargill used to (and all his speeches were “keynote” though not always indoors):
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/10/arthur-scargill-miners-strike-anniversary_n_1267854.html
I noticed “King Arthur” had a letter published in the Daily Telegraph today castigating the Prime Minister for (wait for it) offering to delay proper Brexit by two years and comparing her treachery to that demonstrated by Neville Chamberlain when he came back with a piece of paper signed by Herr Hitler.
“Really can't believe that some of you are so gullible that you think a Corbyn government would survive a year.”
It’s not whether such a government would survive a year that worries me. It’s whether I (and most of my hard-earned) would.
“Yeah...was that the Election where the Tories lost their overall majority and 13 MPs, and Labour gained 30 ?”
It certainly was. The very same one where Labour won 262 seats and the rest won 388 seats.