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A young mum who left Boris Johnson flustered after challenging him over the Tories' use of an attack website said "no-one should believe" his promises about the NHS.

Company administrator Paige Hood asked the Conservative leader about the website which made it harder for people to find the Labour manifesto on Google.

The moment came during a question-and-answer session with employees at Ferguson's Transport in Washington .

The 25-year-old, from Durham , asked Mr Johnson why the Conservative Party needed to set up fake websites and why it paid Google to put their own sites higher than Labour's when people searched for his rival's manifesto.

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He replied: "The short answer is I haven't the foggiest idea."

Mr Johnson then highlighted his own party's manifesto but was challenged further.

He claimed in reply: "A lot of this is, basically, kind of a media diversion.

"What the public really wants to know about is what our plans are, we get Brexit done and move this country forward."

When it was pointed out that the questioner was a member of the public, Mr Johnson also said: "I'm very sorry you can't find that online but I'm sure it's there somewhere."

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He added: "I think the more people are aware of what Labour's plans are the better, because I think they would be economically ruinous to this country."

Ms Hood explained afterwards why she asked the question, saying: "I felt like people should get to have that answer, people may not be aware of the fact that happened.

"It's frustrating (for) anyone looking for the truth, or Labour's manifesto.

"Surely if they have nothing to be scared of they would leave it for people to find."

Asked whether she was impressed by his answer, she said: "It was really empty. He didn't answer it."

Asked if she believed Mr Johnson's answer about not knowing what had gone on, she replied: "It's either that he doesn't know - and surely he should know what's going on in his own Government - or he knew about it and he lied again."

Ms Hood added: "I have a little boy and twice last week we were sat in A&E for five hours and sent on our way saying it was a virus and by the time he got seen his eardrum was nearly bursting because it was a severe ear infection that had been ignored because A&E just don't have the staff or the time.

"It really scares me that if it was something more serious.

"I don't understand how anyone is going to trust the Conservatives at all."

On Mr Johnson's funding pledges for the NHS, she said: "No-one should believe that."