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‘Where the hell have you been?’: Piers Morgan asks Health Secretary Matt Hancock to step down when he becomes the prime minister to appear on GMB in six months, days after Dominic Cummings left number 10.
- Piers Morgan questioned Matt Hancock about the cabinet’s apparent ‘boycott’ of GMB
- Good Morning Britain host asked Hancock why he hadn’t resigned
- Piers suggested that the driving force behind the ban on ministers from appearing at GMB was Lee Cain, who left with Dominic Cummings last week.
Piers Morgan has questioned the Health Secretary about the cabinet’s apparent ‘boycott’ of Good Morning Britain and demanded to know why he had not resigned.
Piers suggested that the driving force behind the ban on ministers from appearing at GMB was former Downing Street communications chief Lee Cain, who left with Dominic Cummings last week.
He called both Cummings and Cain “cheeky little jerks,” and announced that “the 201-day government boycott of GMB has dramatically ended” when Hancock appeared on the show.
Piers began the interview by saying: ‘Good morning, Secretary of Health. First question: since we live in a democracy, where the hell has everyone been for the last 201 days?
He went on to call the country’s testing policy a ‘total disaster’ and demanded to know, ‘given that we now have over 50,000 deaths in this country, which is the worst death toll in all of Europe, why is he still Secretary of Health ? and why has he not submitted his resignation?
Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid interviewed Health Secretary Matt Hancock today
Mr. Hancock said, ‘Well, it’s very nice to hear your voice again, Piers, Susanna. Well, last week you asked me to do it (actually, albeit briefly), you asked me to come back as soon as the papers allowed and here I am.
Piers asked Hancock if he “supported the boycott,” saying there had been no cabinet minister at GMB for more than six months.
The Secretary of Health said: ‘WI haven’t been out where I’ve been, working incredibly hard, for example, building the kind of testing capability … making progress on the vaccine, which is really good. ‘
Piers Morgan went on to ask why Mr. Hancock had not resigned.
Mr. Hancock said, ‘Well, it’s very nice to hear your voice again, Piers, Susanna. Well, last week you asked me to do it (actually, albeit briefly), you asked me to come back as soon as the papers allowed and here I am.
Piers suggested that the driving force behind the ban on ministers from appearing at GMB was former Downing Street communications chief Lee Cain, who left with Dominic Cummings last week.
Hancock said: ‘Well, because we have been building the response to all these enormous challenges of this unprecedented pandemic.
‘The first thing is that, in testing, we have reached each of the goals that I have set myself: half a million tests per day of capacity now, and I’m here to tell you that we are going to double that in the next few months, and that means that we can use the tests to find where the virus is.
“Most importantly, we shortened those response times so people can get the result faster and then can isolate them if necessary.”
Piers Morgan asked if Mr. Hancock was willing to admit any mistakes, to which the Secretary of Health replied: ‘Sure, of course, we’ve made mistakes, absolutely.
“ When we first published the guide for funerals in the first peak, it was interpreted to be so strict that even your spouse could not go to the funeral of someone who had died of coronavirus.
‘Now that was wrong, and we changed it. Absolutely, we’ve been learning. ‘
