Both the Conservatives and Labour have had gaffe prone starts to their election campaigns, but does any of it compare with this? Gillian Duffy heckled Gordon Brown as he was interviewed live on TV in Rochdale, then as he leaves he forgets to take off his microphone...(28 Ap 2010)
2001 launch was a bad one for Labour:
Blair confronted by Sharon Storer on a hospital visit ❌
Straw slow hand clapped by the Police Fed ❌
Prescott punched a voter in Rhyl ❌
Blair came under fire about the Dome in ITV Q & A ❌
Granted, Labour were at 47% in the polls...
'At least we have something in common perhaps.' Angela Merkel tries her best to hide her amusement as Donald Trump jokes about allegations of hacking against both her and the Trump election campaign. (17 March 2017)
'Would you like me to be the cat'? Respect MP Galloway, 51, went on all fours, purred and pretended to lick cream from actress Rula Lenska's hands. (Jan 13 2006)
Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice says Nigel Farage, who has failed to be elected to Parliament despite seven previous attempts, is doing the brave thing by not standing this time. (04 Nov 2019)
An amusing 'fight' erupts on Jordanian television network 7 Stars between journalists Shaker Al-Johari and Mohammed Al-Jayousi over their differing opinions regarding the Syrian crisis. Thankfully it appears that the only thing hurt was the table. (May 2014)
Following some tension between Home Secretary Theresa May and the chairman of the Police Federation, Krishnan Guru-Murthy suggests they 'go and do it round the back'. (20 May 2015, shortly after the general election)
Incessant background shouting on the news may seem like a modern invention, but it was there long before shouty #stopbrexit man arrived, and John Prescott had his own way of dealing with it... (May 11 2010, 5 days after the general action)
James Callaghan has a thorny exchange with Robin Day concerning Roy Jenkins' deputy leadership of the Labour Party. Callaghan went on to be the UK's longest lived prime minister, dying just a day before his 93rd birthday. (1971)
Future president Donald Trump gets intimate with his attorney Rudy Giuliani, who's dressed in drag for the Mayor's Inner Circle Press Roast #GrabEmByThePussy (2000)