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Get stuffed!’ Boris said (Picture Getty)

London mayor Boris Johnson told a rival politician to ‘get stuffed’ in 2013 when he was criticised over plans to frontline fire fighting services.

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Boris’s cuts – implemented in 2014 – closed 10 fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighters’ jobs.

Labour Assembly leader Andrew Dismore asked then-Mayor Boris, ‘How can cutting fire stations, cutting fire engines and cutting firefighters post not be a reduction in fire cover? You’ve lied to the people of London.’

Boris snapped, ‘Get stuffed’ – but apologised saying, ‘It just popped out.’


When the cuts were implemented in 2014, firefighters wept and embraced each other outside stations which closed – including Britain’s oldest, in Clerkenwell.



Video of the clash has circulated widely on social media in the wake of today’s Grenfell Tower disaster.

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What we know about the Grenfell Tower fire London Fire Brigade was first called at 12.54am on Wednesday morning to the Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road.

At least 17 deaths have been confirmed following the blaze at Grenfell Tower in north Kensington.

At least 74 people have been taken to five hospitals, London Ambulance Service said.

Around 20 people are in critical care.

The building in north Kensington is at least 24 stories high.

Forty engines containing more than 200 firefighters attended the scene.

Thirty people were taken to five hospitals following the fire.

Fire crews from north Kensington, Kensington, Hammersmith and Paddington and surrounding stations were at the scene with the fire burning from the second to the top floor.

The cause of the fire is not yet clear.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has said the fire has been declared a 'major incident'.

The Grenfell Tower was built in 1974 and contains 120 homes, according to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

More than 20 ambulance crews were sent to the scene, London Ambulance Service said.

The Metropolitan Police have set up a casualty bureau for anyone concerned about their friends and family on 0800 0961 233.

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