In the latest in a line of political plagiarism scandals, a preview of her Tory conference speech  released to the BBC features the kind of soaring rhetoric typical of a keynote address. There are, however, more than faint echoes of something heard before.

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“It is when tested the most that we reach deep within ourselves and find that our capacity to rise to the challenge before us may well be limitless,” May’s speech reads.

Journalist Raphael Hogarth of The Times in London was the first to spot similarities between her words and those of the fictional US President Josiah Bartlett from the HBO show ‘The West Wing.’

In the show, Bartlett, played by actor Martin Sheen, delivers the lines following a terrorist attack on a university in the US.  

The plagiarism accusation is the latest gaffe to dog the prime minister this week.  

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, whose leadership ambitions were boosted following his speech to the conference Tuesday, is now facing calls to resign after telling a Tory fringe event that the Libyan city of Sirte would be a tourist destination to rival Dubai.

“The only thing they have to do is clear the dead bodies away,” he suggested.