PIERS MORGAN AT LOGGERHEADS WITH EDWINA CURRIE
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Piers Morgan and Edwina Currie got into a very heated debate about Matt Hancock on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain.
The former Conservative health minister defended the current Health Secretary for saying there was no national shortage of PPE at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and claiming his team should be thanked for their work on yesterday's episode of GMB.
It was also recently ruled that Hancock had broken the law over Covid contracts.
But Edwina insisted Hancock and his team had done a great job as millions have had their first Covid vaccination and said if Piers were in charge, he'd have acted the same.
Piers had said: "I just find it staggering that we have the Health Secretary of this country at a moment when, nearly a year into this pandemic we have comfortably the worst death toll in the whole of the Europe, the fifth worst in the world, there's no sign at the moment of this abating any time soon sadly, because of the way I think we've handled this.
© ITVEdwina Currie defended Matt Hancock on Good Morning Britain
© ITVPiers was not happy with her defence
"But also we've got a Health Secretary brazenly breaking the law, doubling down and offering no regret or apologies for what he did, and using saving lives and preventing a PPE shortage as his justification when we've just heard he didn't save lives and there was a PPE chronic national shortage."
Currie said: "With all due respect, Piers, if I can come in, he didn't ask to be thanked personally, which you keep saying, he asked for his team to be thanked.
"Actually an awful lot of us are very thankful indeed.
© ITVHancock said there was no national shortage of PPE at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and claimed his team should be thanked for their work
"We've had 18 million people who've had their first vaccination, including me, it's running at about three million a week, somebody had to order those jabs, somebody had to pay for them, somebody had to take the decision we were going to order jabs from lots of different sources."
"That was Kate Bingham!" Piers interrupted.
"No, just a minute, let me talk!" she went on.
© ITVCurrie said we should be thankful to Matt Hancock and his team
"I can't hear you while you're talking Piers," she said when he interrupted her again.
He told her: "You cant just say that without me coming in and saying that was not Matt Hancock."
Currie protested: "But that's his team! He was asking for the work of his team to be recognised and I think indeed it should."
Piers then interrupted her again, saying that was not the issue, and was instead about him breaking the law.
© ITVPiers said she wasn't addressing the issue
"Piers, Piers, Piers listen to me," Currie said.
"Piers darling, you are a very responsible person and I agree with 95% of what you say.
"Had you been in charge of PPE in spring last year, you would have done exactly the same and you would have defied all the critics, you would have failed to have done all the paperwork I'm sure, and you would have made sure we got what we could."
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV