Kate Garraway confronts MP over ‘unpayable debt’ on one-year anniversary of Derek Draper’s death
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Kate Garraway has blasted Wes Streeting over ‘unpayable debt’ in a fierce row on the anniversary of Derek Draper’s death.
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The 57-year-old presenter’s husband died a year ago aged 56 after a long battle with several health problems after contracting Covid-19. On Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain, she confronted the Health Secretary after the Labour government’s admission that social care reforms and plans for long-term funding might not be delivered until 2028.
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‘I’m thinking about Derek. It happens to be the one year anniversary of his death today. A day that is only relevant to me,’ she said. She noted that she has had two separate appeals for funding ‘pushed back’, while her family still hadn’t heard the outcome when he went into Intensive Care before his death.
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‘In the meantime I am lucky, I’ve got an incredible job which pays well, but I was having to fund the situation,’ she explained. ‘Now I’ve got excessive, unpayable debt because of it. And if I am in that position, what else are people going to be? People cant afford four more years of this.’.
Streeting said ‘all of us are with you’ as Kate deals with such an emotionally difficult day. ‘I think one of the reasons we have ended into short term cycle of failure is whenever we talk about social care, there are always costs involved,’ he responded via video call from Carlisle.
