Stanley Johnson defends Boris over hospital bust-up with activist
Stanley Johnson repeats controversial referendum claim that NHS will be £350m-a-week better off after Brexit as he defends son Boris over hospital bust-up with Labour activist father of sick child
- Omar Salem confronted PM in north-east London after daughter ‘nearly died’
- Stanley today said Boris should have fired back about MPs blocking Brexit
- Suggested that if we’d left we’d have another £350m weekly for the NHS
- Contentious pledge was central to Vote Leave’s campaign for Brexit in 2016
Stanley Johnson has defended son Boris after the PM’s hospital bust-up with a Labour activist over NHS funding by repeating his controversial claim that leaving the EU would mean an extra £350million a week for the health service.
Omar Salem yesterday accosted the PM at Whipps Cross University Hospital in north-east London to complain about the care his seven-day old daughter received after she ‘nearly died’.
Today Stanley Johnson told Good Morning Britain that his son should have retorted that if opposition MPs stopped obstructing Brexit there might be more funding.
‘He might have said though he didn’t that if you’d got Brexit dealt with you’d have another 350m a week for the NHS,’ he told the show.
When Boris Johnson campaigned for Vote Leave in the 2016 referendum on the UK’s EU membership, he famously stood next to red bus with a slogan reading: ‘We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead.’
Omar Salem (left) confronted Boris Johnson (right) at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Islington, north-east London, yesterday after his daughter ‘nearly died’
Nigel Farage said Johnson’s pledge was ‘a mistake’ as critics pointed out that of the £350 million handed to the bloc, a rebate is given back to Britain.
This morning, Stanley Johnson was asked how he thinks Boris is getting on in the top job as he battles to ensure we leave the EU by October 31.
‘I think he’s getting on fine everything is going completely smoothly as far as I can see,’ he said.
Elaborating on yesterday’s incident, he said: ‘When you take on that sort of job you have to be able to take everything people throw at you.’
Stanley Johnson (pictured on Good Morning Britain today) repeated his son’s 2016 claim that the NHS could have an extra £350million if Brexit had been seen through
The environmentalist was also asked whether or not he knew his son’s ‘secret plan’ for Brexit after reports emerged the PM was keeping cards close to his chest because he was scared of details being leaked.
Stanley responded by slamming arch-Remainer Dominic Grieve, who was behind a bid to reveal WhatsApp messages sent by the Prime Minister’s aides.
‘You’ve got Dominic Grieve subpoenaing almost every communication of any sort,’ said.
‘So I certainly wouldn’t admit any communication I get from my son because Grieve would be out there saying sorry you’ve got to reveal that in court.’
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