Daily Mail

PM BOOED DURING NEW VISIT

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THE Prime Minister faced yet another hostile reception during her latest visit to meet survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Theresa May was ushered into a car by her security team as the crowd jeered and booed at her following the unannounce­d visit on Wednesday night.

She does not appear to respond in the footage, obtained by ITV and filmed just hours after she publicly apologised for the government’s ‘failures’ in responding to the tragedy. It comes after she was met with cries of ‘coward’ and ‘shame on you’ when she met residents at a refuge centre near the scene of the tragedy on Friday. She told the House of Commons yesterday that she had been to North Kensington to meet a group of residents who came to Downing Street at the weekend to hear about the progress being made.

Mrs May had been criticised for her first visit, in which she met only emergency services, in contrast to Jeremy Corbyn who spoke to and hugged survivors.

Her response to the tragedy opened up renewed questions about her leadership after seeing her Commons majority wiped out in the June 8 general election.

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