Theresa May’s demand to go out campaigning on the doorstep fell a little flat at the weekend when not a single home owner answered the door in a whistle stop visit to a street in Scotland.

The Prime Minister ordered her aides last week to make more time in her diary for door to door campaigning.

However Mrs May was left red-faced on a televised visit to campaign in Aberdeenshire at the weekend when no one answered the door to her.

The visit, which was filmed by Sky News, started with a couple shouting “No, thank you” from their garden as Mrs May walked past. “OK we won’t trouble you then,” she replied, cheerily.