Boris Johnson breezed in and out of a Cambridgeshire hospital in a pre-election campaign stunt.
He had time to pose for the cameras but not to talk to the staff on the frontline of our NHS.
Julia Simons, a trainee at Addenbrooke’s, was prevented from telling him some home truths about the state of the health service.
It is not surprising he didn’t stop to listen.
She would have told him that patients are not getting the treatment they need because of nine years of cuts and creeping privatisation.
And she would have told him the danger his hard Brexit plans pose to the NHS. The trade deal being proposed with the US could leave it at the mercy of American health firms.
This could push up the cost of drugs such as insulin, which are ten times more expensive in the States than in Britain.
Mr Johnson is trying to con voters into believing the NHS will be safe in Tory hands.
No amount of gloss and spin can hide the waiting lists at a record high, the crumbling hospitals and the shortage of staff.
If the PM bothered to talk to those on the frontline he would know this.
There are already too few women in Parliament. And that number is set to fall even further after the election.
A stream of prominent female MPs have decided to stand down, and many blame the hugely increased levels of abuse they receive.
They are bombarded by racist and sexist comments and, all too frequently, death threats. One says she received 2,000 abusive messages in the last week alone.
Decent women from all parties are being hounded out by this toxic culture.
It has to stop.
Cleaner Gayle Say hit the Thunderball jackpot twice after a slip-up filling out
the numbers.
It’s not the first time she must have mopped up after a blunder.
