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Boris Johnson retreated into a fridge to avoid a TV interview, amid rattled nerves at CCHQ over a narrowing in the opinion polls.
The prime minister was ambushed by the Good Morning Britain producer,
Jonathan Swain, during a pre-dawn visit to Modern Milkman, a business
in the Tory-held constituency of Pudsey, in Yorkshire.
When Swain first approached Johnson, he asked: “Morning prime
minister, would you come on Good Morning Britain, prime minister?”
Johnson’s aide can be heard mouthing “oh for fuck’s sake” in response.
The show’s hosts, Piers Morgan
and Susanna Reid, appeared shocked by the aide’s reaction. Swain goes
on to say: “I’ve just had a reaction from one of the minders. OK, no
need to push, thank you very much,” with Reid exclaiming: “The look on
his face, that minder.” The aide was then named on air as the PM’s press
secretary, Rob Oxley.
When Swain presses the prime minister, stating he was live on the
show, Johnson replied “I’ll be with you in a second” and walked off,
before Piers exclaims “he’s gone into the fridge”. Johnson walks inside a
fridge stacked with milk bottles with his aides. One person can be
heard saying: “It’s a bunker.”
Conservative sources subsequently insisted that Johnson was
“categorically not hiding” in the fridge, from which Johnson emerged
carrying a crate of milk bottles – but instead his aides were taking a
moment to prep the PM for a separate, pre-agreed interview.
During the exchange, Swain asked if Johnson would come on the
programme and “deliver on your promise to talk to Piers and Susanna.
We’re ready to go, we’re live on ITV right now. Prime minister, we have
an earpiece in my pocket. You are more than welcome to come on.”
Swain told Morgan and Reid that he was being pushed and shoved by one
of the minders. “It’s a very frosty reception we’ve had so far,” Swain
said after Johnson disappeared, to which Morgan responds: “That was
heroic work.”
Tory aides have closely controlled the PM’s appearances since a chaotic day on Monday. Johnson pocketed a journalist’s phone during a TV interview rather than look at a picture of four-year-old Jack Williment-Barr, asleep on the floor at a Leeds hospital.
Later that day, the Conservatives were accused of fabricating a story
about an assault on an adviser to the health secretary, Matt Hancock,
which they later conceded had not taken place.
After the visit to the dairy, Johnson delivered a crate of milk to a
house in nearby Guiseley, where the homeowner, Mrs Monaghan, appeared
delighted to see him. “It’s so nice to meet you prime minister: what are
you doing up so early?” she asked.
Johnson will criss-cross the country throughout Wednesday on a series
of final campaign stops, visiting Derbyshire, Wales and Essex.
Johnson has been heavily criticised for refusing to do interviews with broadcasters. Last week, Andrew Neil laid down the gauntlet to Johnson by challenging him to do the BBC interview he has so far refused to commit to, saying it was “a question of trust” for the prime minister.
In response to Wednesday morning’s event, Morgan tweeted:
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