Evocative photo trips up Boris Johnson in final days of British election | BevanShields
Britain's overcrowded public health system is dominating the final days of the general election campaign after Prime Minister Boris Johnson stumbled over an evocative photograph of a child forced to sleep on a hospital floor.
Shown the picture during a television interview, Johnson initially refused to look and even took reporter Joe Pike's phone and put it in his pocket."You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket, Prime Minister," Pike said. "His mother says the NHS is in crisis. What's your response to that?"
The issue captured so much attention ahead of Thursday's general election that the Conservatives dispatched Health Secretary Matt Hancock to the hospital in Leeds to manage the fallout.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has made the government's record on health a central plank of his campaign strategy, leapt on the incident as proof the NHS was struggling.
A recent Ipsos Mori poll found the NHS is just three points behind Brexit as the top issue on voters’ minds going into the election.
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