Medical student confronts PM and accuses him of using Addenbrooke’s visit for ‘PR stunt’
Boris Johnsonwas booed by an angry medical student as he left a Cambridge hospital while on a visit, where he set himself a new Brexit deadline of leaving the EU by January “at the absolute latest”.
The prime minister appeared to get a frosty reception at Addenbrooke’s hospital, where staff were not given advance warning of his visit and national media were not invited to attend.
He was confronted by Julia Simons, a 23 -year-old medical student, who later criticized him for using the hospital for a “PR stunt”.
“Staff were not informed even when he was in the hospital. He was too cowardly to face the uncensored opinions of staff because we know the reality the effects of his government’s and party’s policies on patients, ”she said afterwards.
Johnson also went to a primary school in Bury St Edmunds and a police training college in Hendon, as he attempted to focus on his domestic agenda.
In a broadcast interview, though, he was forced to address criticism for failing to meet his deadline of taking the UK out of the EU by 31 October. “There are just too many people who are basically opposed toBrexit, who want to frustrate it, ”he said.
“It was the mandate of the people. They voted by a pretty substantial majority to do this and parliament has simply stood in their way. ”He also recorded a shaky handheld video of himself traveling in a car, released on social media, accusing Labor of blocking Brexit and while“ they couldn ‘ t block parliament actually voting for the deal, they did vote for a delay ”.
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