Boris Johnson has been confronted by a furious dad who told him the NHS is being "destroyed" and declared: "My daughter nearly died yesterday".
The flustered Prime Minister was berated for almost two minutes as he visited a London hospital to see the reality of public services under his leadership.
The dad said his baby daughter was being treated at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, east London, when he ambushed the Tory leader saying: "Would you like that for your own children?"
He told the Prime Minister: "My daughter nearly died yesterday. A&E guys were great, but we then came down to this ward here. It took us two hours... for [unclear] to be put into my seven-day-old daughter."
The nature of the young girl's condition was not clear from the exchange.
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The man said there had been "years and years and years of the NHS being destroyed", adding: "That’s just not acceptable. This ward is not safe for children. There was one registrar covering the entirety of this ward and the neonatal unit.
“That is just not acceptable, is it?
“Would you like that for your own children?”
The dad added: "There are not enough people on this ward, there are not enough doctors, there's not enough nurses, it's not well organised enough.
"The NHS has been destroyed, it's been destroyed, it's been destroyed, and now you come here for a press opportunity!"
As the hospital's chief executive Alan Gurney appeared to try ushering the man away, Mr Johnson protested: "Actually there's no press here".
But the dad gestured to the press filming the confrontation and said: "What do you mean there's no press here! Who are these people?"
Other photos from the same visit show Mr Johnson appeared for the cameras pouring tea with NHS staff.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said Mr Johnson was visiting public services to see for himself the reality of the situation.
The spokesman said the man was understandably "very distressed" and the Prime Minister was "not going to hide away from those circumstances when he goes on these visits, and so obviously is keen to talk to people and empathise and see what he can do to help".
"It's also a reminder of why exactly he is so keen to make the NHS a priority and make sure it's getting the funding that it requires," the spokesman added.
Mr Johnson told the man: "We're actually here to find out what we can do..."
But he replied: "It's a bit late isn't it? Years and years and years of the NHS being destroyed."
A No10 spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister has spent the past six weeks visiting hospitals across the country to hear directly from NHS staff and patients.
"And this is exactly why he is so committed to making sure investment reaches frontline services, so that doctors and nurses have the resources they need and patients receive consistently world-leading care.
"This is why we’ve recently invested an additional £1.8 billion into frontline services and upgrading 20 hospitals across the country.”
A spokesman added: "This is why we've recently invested an additional £1.8 billion into frontline services and are upgrading 20 hospitals across the country."
The man is the latest and most devastating of a string of members of the public confronting Boris Johnson in recent weeks.
A voter in Doncaster stopped him in the street last week saying: "People have died because of austerity.
"And you’ve got the cheek to come here and tell us austerity is over and it’s all good now and we’re going to leave the EU now and everything’s going to be great – it’s a fairytale."
A heckler interrupted a speech he gave in Rotherham telling him to "get back to Parliament" and "sort out the mess that you have created".
And a voter in Leeds politely told him "please leave my town" while on a walkabout in West Yorkshire.
