Piers Morgan has branded the government ‘thoughtless and heartless’ for reinstating parking fees for NHS staff working on the coronavirus frontline.
At the start of the pandemic, Piers vowed to pay all parking fines sent into him from NHS staff members who had been charged for working to save lives.
While Boris Johnson helped scrap the fees shortly afterwards, it’s now been revealed that NHS staff members are now going to be charged again as they ‘couldn’t cover them forever’.
Slamming the government for ‘putting the boot in’ to hardworking heroes who have worked hard throughout the pandemic, Piers has made a new vow to help end staff fees for good.
Speaking on GMB, he said: ‘They stuck the boot into the entire care sector, who had all been risking their lives for months to save people’s lives then Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock remembered Oh, hang on. There’s another group that we can kick as a reward.’
‘This should never have been happening anyway. Seems to me, utterly ridiculous,’ he continued.
‘The doctors and nurses and surgeons, everybody else in the healthcare system had to pay for the privilege of going to hospitals to save our lives, it struck me as completely ridiculous, and particularly obscene when there’s a global pandemic, strikes this country, and they’re risking their own lives and we know that several hundred NHS workers died, risking their lives for us.’
He then promised to go toe-to-toe with the government in a new campaign to scrap fines for NHS staff for good.
The news was welcomed by viewers who work on the frontline, with a student nurse revealing they were being charged £9 a day to work because they didn’t qualify for a doctors’ permit.
Another revealed they were charged £50 a month for staff parking, which was more than half a mile away from the actual hospital.
Piers later added that after his initial pledge to pay off parking tickets, he had received 39 in total from workers amid the pandemic, including intensive care doctors and specialists.
Fighting them all, he then revealed that most had been overruled by the councils- but two were still being fought against by those insisting they still pay.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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