Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid has slammed a Tory MP for his "insensitive and outrageous" remark about Partygate.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has been heavily criticised for branding the partygate scandal as "fluff" and Susanna was the latest to lay into him for his "insensitive" comment, as her and Richard Madeley discussed the news that 15 to 20 officials will soon be slapped with fines by Scotland Yard for a breach of Covid rules.
Appearing on the show today, Susanna fumed over Mr Rees-Mogg's comment, as she spoke of her heartbreak for some families who had not been able to spend their final moments with their loved ones whilst Bpris Johnson was partying.
"It is outrageous I would say because there are people who were not able to be with family members who were dying because of laws introduced by his government," she fumed on the ITV breakfast show today.
"And to now tell those people who are hurt by the fact that the government ministers, members of the staff, may have broken the law to gather together in a way that nobody else was allowed to, to now dismiss that as 'fluff' is insensitive, and outrageous."
Susanna then mentioned the tragic case of the death of a 13-year-old boy who died in hospital alone, with many members of his family unable to attend because of restrictions at the time.
"That family is probably very concerned about the war in Ukraine. They will be living with a wound to their hearts that they could not be with that boy when he lost his life," she added.
"So yes, the war in Ukraine is huge, but there’s a personal tragedy. That doesn’t explain away how difficult the lockdown breaches at the top of government were to those who couldn’t be together."
Mr Rees-Mogg sparked fury with his comments recently.
"All that nonsense is shown up for the trivial nature of it, and that we are now looking at serious difficult decisions that have to be made," he said in full, "I would say the same about Partygate. All of that is shown up for the disproportionate fluff of politics that it was, rather than something of fundamental seriousness about the safety of the world and about the established global order
"When we look back in 36 years at Partygate, people will think 'What were they on about? They were moving from Covid to Russia and Ukraine, yet they were distracted by whether or not the PM spent five minutes in his own garden. It's trivial."
