The Good Morning Britain presenter argued that Labour’s economic recovery proposals for the UK will be irrelevant if the country is forced back into a second coronavirus lockdown during a heated interview with Anneliese Dodds. Ms Dodds stated that she will outlined a plan to preserve the UK economy throughout the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic during Labour’s virtual conference today.
Mr Morgan said: “We now know that we are today going to have the two top science medical people in the country coming out presumably to prepare us for some kind of second national lockdown.
“This is a huge moment and you are going to deliver a speech at Labour’s virtual conference about how you would revive the economy.
“But if we go back into national lockdown everything you’re going to say today becomes irrelevant if there is another national lockdown that causes untold new damage to the economy.”
The Labour MP replied: “I don’t think it will be irrelevant because much of what I will be talking about is trying to preserve the UK’s economic capacity.
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“While we are talking there are still many industries that are operating substantially below capacity, that are really fragile and that are being supported in a targeted way in other countries but not in the UK.
“So actually much of what I will be speaking about is relevant whether we end up having those additional restrictions or not.
“We really need the Government to be dealing with the fact we have got big cliff edges coming up.
“We have got the end of the furlough scheme coming up at the end of October.
“If that continues the rate will increase exponentially and we will be back to where we were pre-lockdown before March.
“The growth rate is about 7 percent, so it is increasing quite quickly.
“We need to get a handle on the social distancing because not enough people have been abiding by the guidelines, therefore the COVID-19 virus has been spreading.
“If it continues to spread we will see more deaths and more hospitalisations.”