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The row between Boris Johnson and Andrew Neil escalated today as the Prime Minister all but ruled out being quizzed by the BBC broadcaster.
A senior Tory source said: “The public are fed up with interviews that are all about the interviewer and endless interruptions.”
But the Corporation’s inquisitor hit back stressing that his interview with Jeremy Corbyn was watched by 3.2 million viewers and that his Twitter clip condemning Mr Johnson for refusing to be interviewed had been viewed more than four million times.
Early this morning, Michael Gove said Mr Johnson was “reviewing and reflecting” on interview requests but a few hours later Tory HQ appeared to rule out him speaking to Mr Neil.
The Conservative source added: “The PM will focus on talking to voters about their priorities including investing in our NHS.”
However, all the other main party leaders have done interviews with Mr Neil, who dismissed the source as a “pyramid of piffle” — using one of Mr Johnson’s phrases.
In his clip, the broadcaster stressed the theme of his interview would have been “trust” in the Prime Minister, including whether his promise for 50,000 more nurses, 40 new hospitals and NHS funding should be believed, particularly given his previous pledge to the Democratic Unionist Party that there would be no border down the Irish Sea under Brexit.
“The PM will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, president Putin, president Xi. So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me,” he added.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds up a banner with the words ‘Get Brexit Done’ during a visit to the John Smedley Mill, while election campaigning in Matlock, Derbyshire.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech during a meeting with workers as he visits John Smedley Mill
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Boris Johnson holds a scarf with slogan “Get Brexit Done”
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Scotland’s First Minster Nicola Sturgeon MSP, poses as the SNP kick off the UK General Election Campaign Bus Tour
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks while holding a sausage roll on the platform of Milton Keynes train station, after a visit at Red Bull Racing
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Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson speaks to Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees after they glued themselves to the party’s battle bus during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in Londo
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon holds a baby in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempts to change a wheel of a Formula One car during a visit at Red Bull Racing while election campaigning
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with hairdresser Charlotte Wilkins at Windwood Heights Retirement Village in Nottingham, while on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson plays pool during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London, while on the General Election campaign trail
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets supporters in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets supporters in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn eats chips in Whitby, while on the General Election campaign trail, wearing a jacket that has “for the many not the few” printed all over it
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on the party’s campaign bus whilst on the General Election campaign
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Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn shakes a street cleaner’s wrist
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a Christmas market
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a butchers during a walkabout at a Christmas Market in Salisbury
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he visits a Christmas market
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes a tour on a security boat around the Port of Southampton
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Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigns outside Finsbury Park station
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes a sip from a pint of Rattler cider as he visits Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm in Callestick, Cornwall
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps make poppadoms during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon plays with local children during a visit to the Jelly Tots & Cookies Play Cafe in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holds some flowers as he meets supporters during a visit to Thurrock in Essex whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream, near Redruth in Cornwall where he enjoyed a cream tea before he and George Eustice M.P. helped with packaging whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage drinks a pint in the Silkstone Inn, Barnsley,
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps make a chicken tikka masala during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson drinks tea with staff members as he visits West Cornwall Community Hospital, in Penzance, Cornwall
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps prepare vegetables during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow,
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the HealeyÕs Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson arrives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, for some national canvassing during the General Election campaign
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the International Aviation Academy, Norwich, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage meets locals in Barnsley market
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, visits the Royal Welsh Showground, in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Dunkertons Cider Company, an organic and plastic free brewery in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries his hand at bricklaying during a visit to the West Nottinghamshire College Construction Centre, in Ashfield
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson collects his papers after speaking during an event to launch the 2019 Conservative Party general election manifesto
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson on a cherry picker during a visit to an eco home building site whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Sheffield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon gives her party’s candidate for North East Fife Stephen Gethins a haircut, during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn takes pictures with supporters during a visit to the Renishaw Miners Welfare, in Renishaw, Sheffield, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dons a cape during a photocall for the charity Chest Heart Stroke Scotland after FMQs at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a visit to Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to David Wilson Homes in Bedford while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn decorates a plate during a visit to a pottery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a construction helmet reading “Prime Minister” during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services, part of a General Election campaign trail stop in Middlesbrough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage holds a pint during general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy at Wythenshawe, while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson eats a candy stick which reads “Back Boris” during a General Election campaign trail stop at Coronation Candy in Blackpool,
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Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson makes a pizza with chef Leonardo Mastrofilippo at Cafe Amisha during her general election campaign tour in London
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to West Monkton CEVC Primary School in Bathpool, Taunton
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon (R) holds a baby as she campaigns with SNP candidate Catriona MacDonald
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to the Gurdwara Singh Sabha Temple in Glasgow
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Nigel Farage holds a fish during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson steers a tug boat during a General Election campaign stop in the port of Bristol,
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Nigel Farage takes a mouthful of homemade cheesecake during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds Rosie the rabbit during a visit to a primary school in Taunton
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage wears boxing gloves as he poses with British boxer Dereck Chisora, during his visit to Gator ABC Boxing Club in Ilford
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries a scone in Bentley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, during General Election campaigning
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan practices with a sparing partner Tyler Brindle as he visits a community boxing gym in London
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, drinks from a pint watched by Defence Minister Johnny Mercer (right) as he meets with military veterans at the Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks with a local woman pushing a wheelbarrow
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage attends a general election campaign event in Sedgefield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to The Shed, a Climate Challenge community project at North Edinburgh Arts
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to the Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre in Glasgow
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn laughs during a visit to the Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project, Sunny Bank Mills, The Spinning Mill in Leeds
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson eats a marshmallow during a visit to Free Rangers Nursery while on the General Election campaign trail in Midsomer Norton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps with the clean up at an opticians as he visits Matlock in Sheffield
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unveils the Labour battle bus while on the General Election campaign trail in Liverpool
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson attends an election campaign event in Golders Green
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves a pallet of chocolate biscuits in a -25 degree celsius storage unit during a general election campaign visit to the headquarters of Iceland Foods in Deeside, northeast Wales
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries his hand at making an Antony Gormley inspired clay figure during an arts class whilst visiting the George Spencer Academy in Nottingham, while on the General Election campaign trail around the country
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon eats a cupcake during a visit to a bakery whilst on the election campaign trail in Alloa
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps quality control staff during a general election campaign visit to the Tayto Castle crisp factory in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage during a visit to Bolsover Boxing Club near Chesterfield in Derbyshire
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Britain’s opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie (right) and party General Election campaign chairman Alex Cole-Hamilton on the General Election campaign trail in Blackhall, Edinburgh
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a guitar as she visits Dalkeith Community Hub with Owen Thompson, SNP election candidate for Midlothian
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Boris Johnson speaks to staff at the East Midlands and East of England Genomic Laboratory Hub, in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Sigma Pharmaceuticals in North Watford
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street on route to Buckingham Palace ahead of an audience with Queen Elizabeth II and the formal start of the General Election
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage addresses supporters at the Washington Central Hotel in Workington
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage stops for a pint of beer with the party’s candidate for Ashfield Martin Daubney (right) during a campaigning stop in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
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Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice poses as he wears boxing gloves at a general election campaign event at Bolsover Boxing Club in Chesterfield
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Jeremy Corbyn kisses Emily Thornbury’s hand in Battersea
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Jeremy Corbyn prepares to launch the Labour Party’s election campaign in south London
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Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party’s election campaign launch
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Jeremy Corbyn takes a selfie while on the General Election campaign trail in Milton Keynes
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson uses a sewing machine during a visit to the John Smedley Mill, while election campaigning in Matlock, Derbyshire.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds up a banner with the words ‘Get Brexit Done’ during a visit to the John Smedley Mill, while election campaigning in Matlock, Derbyshire.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during a visit to the John Smedley Mill, while election campaigning in Matlock, Derbyshire
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn serves students and teachers their school dinners at Bilton High School in Rugby,
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to Fulbridge Academy
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Boris Johnson delivers a speech during a meeting with workers as he visits John Smedley Mill
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech during a meeting with workers as he visits John Smedley Mill
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Boris Johnson holds a scarf with slogan “Get Brexit Done”
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Scotland’s First Minster Nicola Sturgeon MSP, poses as the SNP kick off the UK General Election Campaign Bus Tour
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks while holding a sausage roll on the platform of Milton Keynes train station, after a visit at Red Bull Racing
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Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson speaks to Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees after they glued themselves to the party’s battle bus during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in Londo
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon holds a baby in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempts to change a wheel of a Formula One car during a visit at Red Bull Racing while election campaigning
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Boris Johnson attempts to change a wheel of a Formula One car during a visit at Red Bull Racing while election campaigning
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with hairdresser Charlotte Wilkins at Windwood Heights Retirement Village in Nottingham, while on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson plays pool during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London, while on the General Election campaign trail
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets supporters in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets supporters in Dalkeith, while on the General Election campaign trail in Scotland.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn eats chips in Whitby, while on the General Election campaign trail, wearing a jacket that has “for the many not the few” printed all over it
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on the party’s campaign bus whilst on the General Election campaign
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Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn shakes a street cleaner’s wrist
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a Christmas market
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a butchers during a walkabout at a Christmas Market in Salisbury
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he visits a Christmas market
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage takes a bow
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes a tour on a security boat around the Port of Southampton
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Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigns outside Finsbury Park station
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes a sip from a pint of Rattler cider as he visits Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm in Callestick, Cornwall
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps make poppadoms during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon plays with local children during a visit to the Jelly Tots & Cookies Play Cafe in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holds some flowers as he meets supporters during a visit to Thurrock in Essex whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream, near Redruth in Cornwall where he enjoyed a cream tea before he and George Eustice M.P. helped with packaging whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream, near Redruth in Cornwall where he and George Eustice M.P. helped with packaging whilst on the General Election campaign traiL
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage drinks a pint in the Silkstone Inn, Barnsley,
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps make a chicken tikka masala during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson drinks tea with staff members as he visits West Cornwall Community Hospital, in Penzance, Cornwall
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson helps prepare vegetables during a visit to the Ashoka restaurant in Bearsden, Glasgow,
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the HealeyÕs Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, near Truro in Cornwall, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson arrives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, for some national canvassing during the General Election campaign
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the International Aviation Academy, Norwich, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage meets locals in Barnsley market
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, visits the Royal Welsh Showground, in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Dunkertons Cider Company, an organic and plastic free brewery in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries his hand at bricklaying during a visit to the West Nottinghamshire College Construction Centre, in Ashfield
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson collects his papers after speaking during an event to launch the 2019 Conservative Party general election manifesto
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson on a cherry picker during a visit to an eco home building site whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Sheffield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon gives her party’s candidate for North East Fife Stephen Gethins a haircut, during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn takes pictures with supporters during a visit to the Renishaw Miners Welfare, in Renishaw, Sheffield, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage visits Seaham during the Brexit Party general election campaign tour
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dons a cape during a photocall for the charity Chest Heart Stroke Scotland after FMQs at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a visit to Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Nigel Farage visits the Brook pie and mash shop in Dagenham
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to David Wilson Homes in Bedford while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to The Oatcake Boat owned by Kay Mundy, in Stoke-on-Trent, while on the General Election campaign trai
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn decorates a plate during a visit to a pottery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a construction helmet reading “Prime Minister” during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services, part of a General Election campaign trail stop in Middlesbrough
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson runs to his campaign bus after a general election campaign visit to Wilton Engineering Services, in Middlesbrough
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Trumpington Park Primary School, in Cambridge, whilst campaigning for the General Electio
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Jeremy Corbyn reacts during the election head-to-head debate live on TV
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds part of the door of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage talks to a during a walkabout with PPC candidate Mike Greene as part of a general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Michael Gove and Andrew Gwynne during an interview at tonight’s debate in the ‘Spin Room’ ahead of general election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a ‘Made In Britain’ sign he took off the packaging of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage holds a pint during general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy at Wythenshawe, while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson eats a candy stick which reads “Back Boris” during a General Election campaign trail stop at Coronation Candy in Blackpool,
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Mr Gove faced grilling over the row and refused three times to say, if he was in the Prime Minister’s shoes, whether he would go face-to-face with Mr Neil.
He stressed Mr Johnson had been interviewed more than 100 times during the election campaign and subjected himself to an unprecedented level of scrutiny. “Never before has a Prime Minister gone head-to-head twice with the leader of the opposition during a general election,” he told Sky News.
Pointing to the BBC’s leaders’ debate tonight, he added: “The debate gives people an opportunity to look at Jeremy Corbyn and the Prime Minister.”
The Conservatives also attacked Labour over allowing EU nationals to take part in a second referendum, which Mr Gove said would be changing the rules.
Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey insisted: “I don’t think it’s skewing the outcome of a referendum.”
Amid criticism of her election campaign, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told GMB she was not in politics to be “liked” but to stand up for what she believed in.
