Labour candidate’s ‘vile’ comments about Boris Johnson’s life or death battle with Covid
EXCLUSIVE - A Labour candidate has apologised for tweets she posted amid Boris Johnson's life-threatening battle with Coronavirus.
Boris Johnson says NHS ‘saved my life’ after hospital discharge
A top Labour candidate has been blasted after the Express unearthed comments from her appearing to mock Boris Johnson’s life-threatening battle with Covid-19.
Alison Hume, the party’s candidate in the marginal Scarborough and Whitby constituency, posted to Twitter just minutes after Mr Johnson was discharged from Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital after a number of days on the brink in Intensive Care.
Twenty-seven minutes after news broke that he had been discharged, Ms Hume posted the cryptic: “Goodie goodie sad sad”.
A few hours later, and referencing the doctors Mr Johnson personally thanked in his post-hospital speech, Ms Hume added: “I wonder if Karma visited Boris Johnson in hospital and stood alongside Jenny and Luis?”
“I hope he is a changed politician and we’ve had a little Easter miracle, rather than another sick bucket of Tory spin.”
She also liked one reply to her tweet suggesting Mr Johnson could “start with the £350 million he promised [in the Brexit referendum]”.
In March 2020, Ms Hume also shared a Guardian cartoon by Steve Bell, which depicted Priti Patel as a bull. The cartoon was decried as racist shortly after it was published.
Sajid Javid blasted: “Reminiscent of anti-Semitic cartoons from the last century. Incredibly offensive. @guardian should know better.”
The top Labour candidate has now apologised for her tweets about Mr Johnson’s incredibly serious Covid battle.
A spokesman told the Express: “As is clear from the tweet, Alison was wishing for Boris Johnson's full recovery”.
“She regrets her language and has apologised.”
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However a Tory source described the comments as “vile”.
They warned: “It’s only right Labour has apologised for this vile commentary about Boris.
“Unfortunately it gives an insight into the extremely vicious politics to come should Labour win the election.”
Mr Johnson’s touch-and-go battle with Coronavirus in April 2020 sparked a slough of sickening tweets from hard left-wingers, including a Labour mayor saying “he completely deserves this and he is one of the worst PM’s we’ve ever had”.
Another Labour member tweeted: “Bad things (Coronavirus) happening to bad people (Boris Johnson) is very good and funny actually”.
According to the Guardian last week, Ms Hume’s constituency of Whitby could be key to deciding the outcome of the election.
More in Common said that the demographics of the seat makes it “the seat which gives Labour an overall majority” based on current polling.
One local voter interviewed by the paper appeared more supportive of Mr Johnson than the local Labour candidate, bemoaning: “The days of good leaders are over”.
Maeve complained that Mr Sunak holds little personal appeal, unlike Boris Johnson, who “played the fool but was actually quite clever”.
The paper reported that this view was voiced “by many women in the town”.