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Evening Standard
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William Hosie

Tracey Emin at Hay Festival: ‘Keir Starmer has no edge’ – the artist talks politics, illness and Margate life

Clad in a black t-shirt bearing her own name and the number 69 in bold gold letters, Tracey Emin (CBE) spoke to Dylan Jones (OBE) about her experiences with bladder cancer, life in Margate, and what she thinks of Sir Keir Starmer at what was clearly the biggest event of the day at the festival, with the Baillie Gifford tent stuffed to the gills.

Emin took the capacity audience back to 2020; a time when she was enjoying the peacefulness of London during lockdown. “I was lying naked in the sun on my roof in Fournier Street, drinking champagne and waving at the vicar and his wife in the church garden below.”

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