let‘s talk now to the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth.th that assessment?” do agree. nhs staff and care workers have been raising the alarm now for literally weeks about inadequate supply of ppe, that‘s the visors, gowns, antibacterial materials they need. and we still keep getting doctors, nurses and other health ca re doctors, nurses and other health care workers telling us, pleading with us that they haven‘t got enough kit, that they are forced to turn curtains into kit. we have seen nurses at a hospital in london forced to use bin liners. they have now been brought down with coronavirus. to somehow suggest it might be because nhs staff are wasting the ppe or overusing it, i think it‘s frankly insulting. what should be happening is ministers getting a grip so we can get ppe to the front line as soon as possible. could it be the case that there is toa could it be the case that there is to a certain extent a distribution problem, and clearly some places are not getting the equipment they need, but there are others where they are getting

very good to talk to you, jonathan ashworth. thank you so much.illnesses. among them are people who desperately need organ transplants, many of whom have been waiting for a long time. the uk's organ transplant network it said it could be forced to close. there's a lack of intensive care beds and a much greater risk of transplant patients if they catch the virus. we can speak to the chief executive of the british liver trust, pamela. this is a very difficult state of affairs for people who are waiting for an organ transplant. just talk us through some medicine behind it. why is there a greater risk for patients if they catch covid—19?|j is there a greater risk for patients if they catch covid-19? i think the transplant patients are very vulnerable, very vulnerable indeed, and that is because they are suppressed and therefore they cannot afford to get coronavirus. so it is, they are very high risk. at the moment, there a very strong case, not having transplants because there isa not having transplants because there is a balance of risk between havin

interesting that jonathan ashworth has been quite dark in his criticism of the prime minister and theeral, a sort of constructive critical approach, but going for the prime minister a bit there in response to that standard time support, and we should stay, the fact the prime minister was not at there's cobra meetings was known at there's cobra meetings was known at there's cobra meetings was known at the time and acknowledged by downing street and were led by the health secretary matt hancock in most cases and it's not necessarily the case the prime minister would be expected to be at each and every cobra meeting but, nevertheless, net labour turning cobra meeting but, nevertheless, net labourturning up cobra meeting but, nevertheless, net labour turning up the heat on the government in terms of their early response to the coronavirus today. 0k, many thanks, jonathan blake, thank you. staying in the uk, businesses are urging the government to announce a further extension to a job retention scheme which gives government assistance to continue to pay staff who've been temporarily laid o

jonathan ashworth thank you very much for your time this morning.messed around. that definitely will not last and the left quite quickly and it's a chilly start. some of seeing a touch of frost first thing but for most today, it will be dry and there will be some sunny spells around. high pressure still in charge of our weather. we do have a weather front coming in from the west. that's going to throw in more cloud at times and in the north—west, still a brisk breeze. so we will lose the mist and fog first thing this morning and then there will be a lot of sunshine across much of scotland. still breezing in the west, a bit more cloud in the outer hebrides. for northern england, little pockets of cloud for you but a lot of dry weather. a cold start with some sunshine. for wales, the midlands, east anglia heading south, a similar story, patchy mist and fog lifting. a cold start but a fair bit of sunshine. through the day, some fair weather cloud building. turning the sunshine hazy. it could be thick enough across the channel islands and south—west eng

jonathan ashworth, thank you so much for your time, jonathan ashworth, thank you so much foryourtime,hine for many of us. louise is going to update us but of course louise we have been asking our viewers as well for creative ways to enjoy the sunshine but by staying at home. you don't need to necessarily go outside, you can just don't need to necessarily go outside, you canjust open don't need to necessarily go outside, you can just open the window and turn off the heating and enjoy some of the spring warmth that will bask through the windows and listen to the beautiful wildlife is well in the gardens. the weather watchers that we use helped illustrate the story and we have been asking people to send photographs from the view from your window or your garden and this one illustrates the point beautifully. thank you, jane. this was her garden first thing this morning and it is a great way of me showing you that there is a little bit of pudgy mist and fog around at the moment. it is not expected to last and it will list and we will see some sunshine today and generally speaking we are he

let's cross to leicester now where we can speak to the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth.s promised, from 20,000 up to 100,000. are you reassuring now? first of all, it's good to see matt hancock back. he is been off with coronavirus and we all these days seem coronavirus and we all these days seem to have recovered from that. best wishes to matt for what has beena best wishes to matt for what has been a quite worrying time. more broadly though we have been calling for a national testing strategy because the way in which you beat this virus and escape what i fear could be an endless cycle of lockdowns is by massively wrapping up lockdowns is by massively wrapping up testing and expanding community testing and what is called contact racing in the community. properly protecting the nhs staff and their families on the front line in properly enforcing social distancing measures. a couple of weeks ago, borisjohnson said we measures. a couple of weeks ago, boris johnson said we would hit to 50,000 tests a day but today the goal is 100,000 tests a day and that is welcome because

we can speak now to the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth. ituation. what have you made on the opposition benches of their efforts so far? one of the things that has concerned us as we often get or hear from firms getting in touch with us telling us that they have offered to supply ppe to the government, that they can provide ppe for ourfront to the government, that they can provide ppe for our front line to the government, that they can provide ppe for ourfront line nhs workers and our social care workers and they get in touch with the government in the way in which they've been told to and don't hear anything back. we as mps also pass on these offers of help to the government as well. i think given this is a national crisis and we know that doctors and nurses on the front line needs at this ppe. we know social care workers desperately need this ppe and we hear stories of them going without, i want us to mobilise our british firms. let's get our production lines running in british firms, who can make this ppe. it may well be that some of thes

the shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth also spoke about the need for the government to engages who are able to make ppe for nhs front line staff and care workers. i really want us to mobilise those british firms, let's get our production lines running in british firms, who can make this ppe. it may well be that some of these firms can only make small quantities of it, but that doesn't matter because we need everybody — we need everybody doing what they can as part of this national effort. let's speak to our assistant political editor norman smith. good morning, norman. so where are we on ppe and whether front line staff are going to get the stuff they need? well, i suspect we are not much further forward than we were yesterday, in that some kit has arrived now from turkey. it's been checked and gone through at raf brize norton. there have been previous deliveries from china, when china have been meant to deliver around 200,000 bits of kit and when they went through it there was only 20,000. these have to be checked to make sure they are there in sufficient quantities and up to

jonathan ashworth, thank you forjoining us. iam glad ashworth, thank you forjoining us. talking about a lack of chemicals available for tests. we will try and get a bit of clarity about that and the numbers of people being tested and why we are short of that 25,000 target the boris johnson why we are short of that 25,000 target the borisjohnson mentioned over two weeks now. what we're trying to do on is bring you the news about a little bit ofjoy into our lives and also try and keep us all moving. diana moran — better known as the green goddess — was getting britain exercising beforejoe wicks was even born. some time before that. and she's still doing it now. i know so many of you have been enjoying and getting involved with her. here she is with another gentle workout to boost your energy levels — particularly if you are stuck inside on self—isolation. good morning, everybody. i hope you are able to feel healthy and keeping great in these terrible circumstances. i am going to make us feel better this morning and to energise us. stan mason comfortably and just bend your

labour's shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth. good morning.nnounce the lockdown we are living under will be extended. some people still have to go to work and we want the government to give clear guidance to firms making staff go to work in say the construction sector, when it does not appear to be essential work. we expect the lockdown to continue and we would support that. i called for a lockdown before the government introduce one. we want more detail about what happens next. last night thejunior health about what happens next. last night the junior health minister complained on twitter said people should not ask about exit strategy because there is no exit strategy until a vaccine, and that could be 18 months away. if the government are saying we are a lockdown 18 months they probably need to tell us. the best way to come out is to manage away in the coming months, to move to a testing, contact tracing strategy. i will be looking for the government to give more details on where they are. they promised 100,000 tests a day and we are at 16,0

jonathan ashworth, thank you for talking to us this morning on brea kfast.o still. but the weekend sta rts been so still. but the weekend starts with subtle changes to this predominantly dry spell of weather, so it will start to turn a bit cooler. we will still see plenty of sunshine, this was a bit earlier at hannebery in worcestershire, so thanks to the weather watchers for sending those in. rather grey for eastern scotland and north—east england, all low cloud drifting in through the night in east anglia, pockets of fog elsewhere, but at this time of year, the april sunshine is strong and it will melt away the cloud and it becomes much brighter and sunnier by lunchtime. we could have a future sparked off later in the day in the south—west moors and the welsh mountains, a few in the north, that a bit cooler here and for most, warm again. 23 yesterday and probably 21 today, but that won't affect the pollen levels, again forecast to be high in many areas as you can see through today. the potential for isolated showers in the afternoon. possibly drifting into

that was the charge we heard this morning from shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth.w other countries have been able to beat this virus or get this virus under control and suppressed. we are not doing it yet. we need to test whether you have got it now. and the new test coming on stream soon, which tests whether you have had it. this all matters, as we know, because testing, mass testing, is probably the only route out of lockdown short of getting a vaccine, which as we know could be a year or 18 months. however, it seems the government is placing quite a lot of help on an alternative test. this is an immunity test which tests whether people have got the antibodies for the virus. the point about that is it would enable the government to identify which groups in the community were vulnerable to the virus. if there are a lot of antibodies, for example, in the student population, it would also, perhaps enable some people to emerge from lockdown earlier than others, because then they would have immunity to the virus. the government are now hoping that this antibody test c

we now go over to the shadow secretary of state, jonathan ashworth. front line who gave their lives for all of us. can we also remember those social care staff that also lost their lives. could the secretary of state tells what the actual number of social care staff is, the first secretary did not have those statistics a few moments ago. it looks like we're heading to one of the worst death rates in europe. the government have been careful to a lwa ys the government have been careful to always say we're following scientific advice. good to secretary of state tell us what the explanation is from the government's scientists as to why our death rate seems so poor scientists as to why our death rate seems so poor compared for example with germany. will he undertake to publish the minutes which are not being published and would he also undertake to publish the evidence as to why we are following a seven day rule for isolation and that appears to contradict the world health organization who suggest a 14 day rule of isolation. as the virus develops rule of i