Boris Johnson is on the Vote Leave campaign trail in York this morning, and has just addressed a medium-sized crowd in the city centre. Unlike some of the election rallies that we saw last year, there were some real members of the public attending – and a chap who had turned up to egg he former Mayor, but didn’t manage to.
Afterwards, the failed egger claimed he had never intended to throw the egg, but had just brought it along to ’cause a scene’, which rather made it sound as though the egg itself had been threatening to run amok in the square. Boris was also booed by a small group of Remain campaigners as he arrived, but he delivered a cheery three minute speech, waving aloft a copy of Steve Hilton’s article as he spoke. There was a slightly awkward silence from the crowd as he mentioned Hilton, as no-one seemed to know who he was. And the former Mayor decided to take on those who had ridiculed him about his claims regarding EU control over bananas. He said he had looked into it and there were actually ‘four directives on bananas, including a directive on the curvature of bananas.’ And then after telling the aspiring egg chucker that there were people going hungry in this country, Boris bowled off. Do these rallies help? They’re certainly better than the fake rallies that are staged just for the cameras by the main parties. And they create a sense of momentum and excitement around the Leave campaign, getting attention from people who aren’t necessarily engaged in the referendum debate as they go about their business in shopping area.Boris turns to the chap who had brought an egg to throw at him and tells him people are going hungry pic.twitter.com/z6Wfl7eRwD— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) May 23, 2016
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