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Tiny baby Lily, forced to spend the night on a hospital chair swathed in a cardigan because no bed was free, is another image that shames Boris Johnson and the callous Conservatives.

After our photograph of four-year-old Jack sleeping on a hospital floor, the grim picture emerging is of a National Health Service buckling after nine years of life-sapping Tory austerity.

On the ballot paper this Thursday isn’t just Brexit but the NHS and everything else we value including schools, homes and social security.

Boris Johnson’s initial dismissal of Jack’s plight, pocketing a TV correspondent’s mobile phone instead of looking at the picture of Jack, was typical Conservative contempt.

If you care about our precious NHS, vote Labour or for the party in your area with the best chance of beating the Tories.

Boris Johnson’s lies about nurses, extra hospitals and spending are a smokescreen puffed out by a Conservative wriggler who doesn’t want you to know the truth about Lily, Jack and the countless others like them.

(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Customary lies

Boris Johnson’s deception over his flagship Brexit policy is typical of a man incapable of being straight with voters.

That he was exposed again by leaked official documents as lying about customs checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland illustrates his falsehood-based approach to politics.

From the “£350m a week for the NHS” lie on the 2106 referendum bus to the fallacy of his “Get Brexit Done” chant when years of difficult trade talks are ahead, Johnson has proved that he is a stranger to the truth.

(Image: Michael Schade/AFP via Getty Ima)

A tragic toll

The death toll in the New Zealand volcano eruption is a tragic loss of life.

Fears are rising that the eight people currently listed as missing were in fact killed along with the five confirmed dead.

It seems that the curious visitors to the beautiful White Island had little chance of escape.

Our hearts go out to the families of those lost and injured in the violent eruption.