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#PleaseLeaveMyTown trends after another heckling for Boris Johnson in Yorkshire
A passer-by tells Boris Johnson: "Please leave my town". Photograph: BBC. - Credit: Archant
The hashtag #PleaseLeaveMyTown became the top Twitter trend in the UK on Thursday after Boris Johnson was confronted several times in Yorkshire.
Boris Johnson was setting the scene for a "people versus parliament" election strategy when BBC footage caught the moment a member of the public shook his hand and said: "Please leave my town."
Johnson promptly replied: "I will very soon" - the clip has since been shared widely on social media earning hundreds of thousands of views.
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Several Labour MPs used the hashtag to share the video, with Labour MP and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon tweeting: "When two worlds collide - straight talking Yorkshire meets Bullingdon bluster! #PleaseLeaveMyTown."
Labour MP for Liverpool Walton Dan Carden meanwhile tweeted: "This is what happens when Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson actually comes face to face with "the people" he claims to speak for."
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Another Twitter user said: "Dearest Yorkshire, as a Lancastrian, I have no problem at all in saying that today belongs to you."
Harry Neary said: "I think the Yorkshireman telling Johnson to #PleaseLeaveMyTown might be the best thing to happen in British politics for years" while Kate Wilton said: "I love the way #PleaseLeaveMyTown is trending. Proud of my paternal Yorkshire roots."
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On the wider point, Judy Hamilton tweeted: "So in a couple of days Johnson & his cronies have managed to alienate Women, Muslims, Doctors, the BMA, the Police, Yorkshire, Parliament, the EU, Ireland, a huge number of his own MPs, his own brother. Anyone else?"
During the six o'clock broadcast Johnson also encountered a man who told him he should be in Brussels - not in Morley.
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