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Piers Morgan has slammed the UK government’s response to the global pandemic, saying he’d change “absolutely everything” about the way they’ve handled it all so far.
The Good Morning Britain host interviewed Dr Hilary Jones, who asked:
What would you have changed? If we didn’t have the testing, what would you have changed?
Morgan responded:
I would have changed absolutely everything.
Continuing his tirade, Morgan said he would make sure the UK had adequate tests, taken notes from South Korea and China and properly locked down airports.
When Dr Hilary asked if those measures would’ve sold the problem in care homes – where more than 10,000 people have died – Morgan responded:
Well, I certainly wouldn’t have allowed a single elderly person out of a hospital, who had Covid-19, without having a test.
Then Dr Hilary jumped back in:
But we didn’t have tests!
The response on social media to the segment had a small minority of people agreeing with the GMB host:
@GMB @piersmorgan Is Dr Hilary being paid by the Tories or what ?? Defending the indefensible when so many ppl are dying Shameful.— Sam (@Sam) 1589347993
@netmarketer360 @GMB @piersmorgan Enough, when every other nation said "testing is the way to beat this" our govern… https://t.co/qnqTX8MQcw— Scree (⧖) (@Scree (⧖)) 1589350416
But many people condemned Morgan’s tirade for its negativity:
@GMB @piersmorgan Until 7 or 8 weeks ago, @GMB was the first thing on my tv Mon-Wed. I looked forward to… https://t.co/dhL6aYwlxf— Dez L (@Dez L) 1589350040
@GMB @piersmorgan No government officials should go on @GMB it would be condoning the behaviour of Piers who's done… https://t.co/D3nOwSdJPc— Lily meadows (@Lily meadows) 1589348112
@GMB @piersmorgan Good Moaning Britain struggling to have anything to say, Piers still thinking he's the font of al… https://t.co/0EbeJlNPwo— Love reading the mindless drivvle... (@Love reading the mindless drivvle...) 1589348700
People also felt it was very easy to say what you would have done in hindsight…
@GMB @piersmorgan It's easy to say I would do everything different, despite what Piers thinks he doesn't know it al… https://t.co/FGmy6WnwzI— AmyC (@AmyC) 1589350800
@GMB @piersmorgan Why didn’t he speak up in January then? Easy to say what we could’ve done better after it’s alrea… https://t.co/LOIfOZYodG— Lorcán Thorpe (@Lorcán Thorpe) 1589348131
The lack of testing has been a point of contention for the UK government since the start of the global pandemic.
The UK government has been accused of “misleading the public” over the number of people receiving tests. Health Secretary Matt Hancock strongly denies this.
At the time of writing, the UK has over 226,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 32,692 deaths.