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A man who politely told Boris Johnson "please leave my town" has been hailed as a hero online.

Johnson visited Leeds and Wakefield this afternoon, after a week of chaos and humiliation.

And the humiliation didn't stop when he did a walkabout, shaking hands with members of the public.

One man approached the PM, shaking his hand and smiling before very gently saying: "Please leave my town."

Johnson replied: "I will. Very soon."

The man gave the PM a slap on the shoulder to send him on his way.

He was quickly hailed as a hero and an icon by online fans.

Later in the day, Johnson fumbled embarrassing questions about his brother's dramatic resignation in a car-crash speech which ended with a police cadet collapsing behind him.

The Prime Minister arrived on stage more than an hour after he was expected to deliver the speech at a Police academy in Wakefield.

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And he delivered a shambolic and meandering address, spending several minutes trying to remember the police caution officers have to learn during training.

He declared he would rather be "dead in a ditch" than return to Brussels to ask for another Brexit delay.

And he said his brother Jo Johnson "does not agree with me about the European Union because it's an issue that obviously divides families and divides everybody".

Jo quit the Government this morning, saying he had been "torn between family loyalty and the national interest" - and it was an "unresolvable tension".