COVID CLASH
Kate Garraway and Dominic Raab in fiery clash over the Covid quarantine hotels ‘fiasco’ as he calls GMB host ‘cynical’
KATE Garraway and Dominic Raab were involved in a fiery on-screen clash today as the GMB host grilled him over the quarantine hotels "fiasco".
The row erupted when the presenter said she wanted the Foreign Secretary to "clarify" his response during a heated exchange over the Government's new travel policy.
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The interruption saw Mr Raab snap back "Will you let me answer?"
He then said viewers were fed up with the "media" not allowing politicians to give "honest answers".
Ms Garraway responded: "You’re saying things I haven’t said.
"I need to clarify otherwise you’re not going to get a chance to answer the question if you haven't understood it."
The Minister continued: "Why don’t you pause and let me explain it.
"People get fed up with the media not allowing us to give honest answers."
The heated row followed an equally frosty exchange during which Mr Raab branded the host, whose husband Derek remains in hospital after getting coronavirus last March, "cynical."
Talk had turned to calls for a ceasefire in war torn countries across the globe so the vaccination programme could be rolled out further.
Kate said: "People might be surprised that's what you want to talk about this morning and not something involving the global situation where something else that comes under your view is being seen as an absolute shambles.
"And I am talking, of course, about the situation with quarantine.";
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Mr Raab replied: "First of all, Kate, the timing of this is rather cynical and I do not think that is fair at all."
She fired back: “Hang on, I wasn't saying anything cynical. We were told you wanted to talk about that this morning, and it is a very important thing to talk about.
"But I'm just thinking everyone watching you kick off with that will think 'why's he talking about that when we've got this chaos at home?'
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"It is my job to put those questions to you. So, you are welcome to explain why you put that above the situation which many people think is a fiasco."
It comes as host Kate admitted she hadn't had a lot of sleep as she has been stepping in to present the morning show alongside Ben Shephard as Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid take a break.
Kate has been juggling caring for her children with work while she awaits news on her husband’s condition after he became one of the longest-suffering Covid patients in the UK.
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