This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have faced fury online after posing for a chummy selfie with Boris Johnson .

The trio were accused of 'cuddling up' after the Tory leader's live TV interview.

Viewers had already expressed their discomfort with Mr Schofield's final question – where he asked Boris Johnson to "promise" to get Brexit done by the end of January, giving the PM an opportunity to trot out his favourite slogan one more time.

But when pictures emerged of the selfie being taken, angry voters vented in replies and tweets to the two broadcasters.

Boris Johnson has still failed to arrange a time to be interviewed by BBC rotweiller Andrew Neil before next Thursday's election.

Every other party leader has agreed to a half-hour interview with the broadcaster – but the Tory leader has been branded a chicken after sticking with 'softer' interviewers.

Jeremy Corbyn was given a rough ride from the pair during his interview earlier this week.

He faced repeated questions over anti-Semitism in the grilling – apologising for the hurt caused by racism in the Labour party and pledging to "deal with it".

The toughest moments in Johnson's This Morning appearance came over remarks he'd made about muslims, single mums and working class people in newspaper and magazine columns.

The Tory leader was ambushed with his own words as he went on ITV's This Morning in a bid to talk about his first 100 days in government if he wins the election.

Instead host Holly Willoughby wanted to talk about a column he wrote in 1995 – which he said single mums were producing a generation of "ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children".

She told him: "This will get dragged up because you are the Prime Minister… you branded single mothers irresponsible."

She also raised a 1995 column in which he branded working-class men "drunk, criminal and feckless" – with the TV feed cutting away to a Mirror front page on the vile remarks.

He was also taken to task over his claim that the NHS would not be on the table in US trade deal talks.

He looked to his feet, shifting his weight on the This Morning sofa, as the broadcaster listed a string of US interests in the NHS – declaring: "You're already doing it."

He asked for Mr Johnson's "absolute, rock solid guarantee" that "no part of the NHS will be sold off."

Mr Johnson said it would not.

Mr Schofield went on: "American companies providing about 13% of in-patient beds in England, Manchester. One in four beds provided by an American-owned company in Bristol, North Somerset, Gloucestershire."

He went on: "Three fifths of mental healthcare beds are owned by American companies. Cygnet runs eight mental health settings judged inadequate by the Care Quality Commission watchdog.

"£13.8 billion was spent on the NHS on mental healthcare. £1.8 billion of this went to private sectors, including American firms.

"You're already doing it."

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