"childhood friend". If you were in the same school year as somebody, you'd be called childhood friends by journalists.
Doesn't mean anything.
Besides, children don't generally talk about ISIS or the Taliban, so how would you know that a friend might one day have a very different political opinion to you, when you are 7 years old?
Some people love shaking hands with MPs, makes them feel important, and MPs that refuse to shake a member of the public's hand are generally called nasty names!
Just the usual smears and fabricated accusation that people keep lapping up.