Campaigning pensioner harangues Andrew Lansley outside Downing Street (From Your Local Guardian)
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Campaigning pensioner harangues Andrew Lansley outside Downing Street
1:23pm Tuesday 21st February 2012 in Wandsworth
Mrs Hautot protesting against plans to evict council tenants convicted of rioting
A campaigning pensioner has made the news around the world after haranguing Health Secretary Andrew Lansley outside Downing Street on Monday.
June Hautot, 75, of Tooting, blocked Mr Lansley's path to a key meeting on NHS reforms with the Prime Minister and health chiefs and accused him of trying to "privatise the NHS".
The retired NHS union worker put him on the spot as he made his way through a group of demonstrators.
Ms Hautot prodded him with her finger and said: "Codswallop, don't lie to me, I'm sick of you."
Members of Keep NHS Public were protesting about the decision to invite only select organisations to the meeting, with groups critical of the reforms left out of the negotiations.
Ms Hautot has campaigned on a wide variety of causes over the years, from the future of Battersea Power Station, to pensions, open cast mining and last autumn she took part in a protest outside the leader of the council's house against plans to evict council tenants convicted on riot related offences.
