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After hiding at invitation-only events for the opening weeks of the election campaign, Theresa May tried to finally meet some voters over the weekend.

But it did not go to plan.

She took to the doorstep in Aberdeenshire, campaigning with Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson.

But the first real person she met told her to go away and it all went downhill from there.

She knocked on a string of six doors in a row, hoping to meet friendly and easily led voters within.

But it being a bank holiday with relatively good weather, everyone was out.

(Image: AFP)

(Image: PA)

(Image: PA)

She approached one house, where a couple were tending their garden, but before she even reached the gate one of them shouted: “No thank you!”

The Tory leader replied: “No? Okay, we won’t trouble you then.”

She went house to house, dropping leaflets through the doors of empty homes in the increasingly embarrassing Scottish jaunt.

(Image: Getty Images Europe)

Eventually, Davidson joked: “We told you we’d make you work when you came up here prime minister.”

The PM also faced criticism for ‘hiding from voters’ with an event at a local village hall the same day.

The event was not advertised in advance and the Crathes Village Hall showed the venue booked out for a “child’s party” at the time.