UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson grabbed a reporter's phone and refused to look at a photograph of a four-year-old boy with suspected pneumonia, forced to lie on a hospital emergency room floor as he waited for a bed.
The UK Prime Minister was asked about the image -- which shows a young boy with an oxygen mask, lying underneath a coat -- by Joe Pike, a political correspondent for ITV news. In a video posted to Twitter on Monday, Pike repeatedly asks Johnson to look at the image, which he attempts to show the Prime Minister on his phone.
""Obviously we have every possible sympathy for everybody who has a bad experience in the NHS. That's why we're putting a record investment into the NHS now," Johnson said, before beginning to speak about new investment in police and the health service.UK broadcaster apologizes for misquoting Boris Johnson as saying 'people of colour'When pressed again by Pike on how the image made him feel, Johnson responded:"I haven't had a chance to look.
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