Jonathan Ashworth insisted Boris Johnson had failed to deliver on its pledge to provide Britons with a “world-beating” test and trace system to keep the spread of the coronavirus under control. But while some viewers agreed with his analysis, many questioned his criticism after pointing out the shadow Health Secretary’s own seat of Leicester was forced to re-enter lockdown as COVID cases spiked last month. One Good Morning Britain viewer said: “#gmb Jonathan Ashworth an MP for Leicester. The Government are too slow to react!
“In the meantime presiding over a community that was the first to introduce a secondary lockdown and also seemingly fully engaged in Dickensian employment practises.”
Another viewer said: “I agree with Johnathan Ashworth the government has screwed up their handling of the virus, but he’s an MP for Leicester and he has to take some responsibility!
“#GMB He should be ashamed of himself not gloating about his new hair cut!”
One viewer said he found Mr Ashworth’s comments “rather rich” and challenged his criticism of the Government’s conduct throughout the pandemic.=
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They wrote: “It’s so easy to criticise the government from the opposition benches isn’t it Mr Ashworth, coming from a city of alleged sweatshops and spikes I find it rather rich!
“Go and eat out, save £10 and make yourself happy!!”
Another wrote: “@benshephard seriously ben you need to get a grip on GMB, its the same old c**p everyday.and Jonathan Ashworth, what’s that all about,hes the most pessimistic MP around.
“A bit more positively wouldn’t come amiss.”
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“What we’ve been saying to the Government is, use these four weeks now for urgently fixing it.”
Mr Ashworth continued: “Let’s expand testing and let’s make sure, if you’ve had a test, you get the results back in 24 hours.
“That’s still not happening often enough. But also let’s make sure that local health experts on the ground, backed by local GPs and other health staff, local community nurses…they are doing the contact tracing and follow up, making sure people are isolating.
“And the Government needs to make sure, if you are asked to isolate, if you have to take two weeks off work because you’ve been in contact with somebody with the virus, that you’re given the proper support to do that.”