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Once she read the part, Jones messaged Wood on Instagram before a chance meeting in the loos at the Baftas helped seal the deal.

But neither side exited the meeting with expectations of a breakthrough.

"What I want to see is solar panels on pensioner bungalows and see those pensioners advocating for retrofitting," she told the meeting.

"We were meant to be talking about other artists - and 20 minutes into the meeting, they pitched me becoming an singer," she recalls.

And If child poverty rates had not fallen by the next general election, he told the meeting, there was no point in having a Labour Party.