What was claimed
Footage shows Boris Johnson being booed and pelted with plastic balls in Manchester.
Our verdict
The footage is genuine, but it’s from the 2015 Conservative party conference—not this year’s conference.
This video of a crowd booing Boris Johnson is not from the 2019 Conservative party conference
30 September 2019
Footage showing crowds in Manchester booing and throwing plastic balls at Boris Johnson has been shared thousands of times on Facebook.
While the footage is genuine, it’s important to clarify that it’s not from 2019. It’s actually from the 2015 Conservative party conference.
Viewers may have mistaken it for footage from this year’s conference—which began over the weekend and is also taking place in Manchester.
That incorrect assumption also seemed to have been made in a now-deleted tweet by Labour MP David Lammy, who has since apologised for sharing the video.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as true as the footage is genuinely of a crowd in Manchester booing Boris Johnson, and the Facebook post did not specifically claim it was from 2019.