Embrace Your Inner Imposter
In October 2010, Luciana Berger, the newly appointed Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, was giving her first address at the despatch box.
‘That was a very public moment,’ the Independent Group MP for Liverpool Wavertree tells Grazia. ‘All your colleagues are sitting behind you and you’re desperately trying to make an important contribution that will be recorded forever in Hansard.’
‘ e shaky leg is something I’ve always had,’ she continues. ‘It happens when I’m in important situations, and is o en linked to public speaking. As a student speaking at the NUS [National Union of Students] conference, I had a bruise from where my leg banged repeatedly against the lectern.’