What you didn’t do, though, was make a speech from your leader’s seat. When the speaker called on me to deliver my remarks, I’d stood exactly where I was—Phil’s chair—and began my speech, a faux pas so enormous that it was an invitation to be heckled. “Think you should be in charge?” shouted a minister from the National Party. “You’ll be just like your useless leader!” yelled another MP, managing to slam both me and Phil in a few short words. And then, suddenly, a bunch of people were shouting at me.
