Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway turned away from Health Secretary Wes Streeting during a discussion about healthcare workers and their wages

An upset Kate Garraway turned away from Health Secretary Wes Streeting after questioning him about a pay rise for healthcare workers.

During a fiery debate between the MP, Garraway and Adil Ray, the politician was asked whether £12 an hour is a liveable wage for healthcare workers as they pushed for an increase to £15. However, Streeting said it wasn’t as simple as raising wages as he dodged Ray’s question of whether he would be okay working for £12 an hour.

At one point during the interview, Garraway turned her chair and body away from the camera as Streeting said: “It does take time. I’ll just say, the government has only been in for six months, give us a chance but we know this is a problem.”

Garraway also used her late husband Derek Draper in the discussion about healthcare. Derek sadly died on 3rd January 2024, at the age of 56. Over the past four years there had been many ups and downs for Kate and her family after Derek on many occasions was found to be fighting for his life – at one point he was even placed into an induced a coma after he’d developed holes in major organs.

Kate turned away from the camera during the fiery discussion ( 
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Kate, who recently celebrated her first Christmas without Derek, and her two children Billy and Darcey have struggled as a family after their beloved husband and father was tragically struck down by Covid-19, with the Labour lobbyist battling the long-term effects of the illness for almost four years.

“I’m going to be honest,” Garraway told Streeting on the one-year anniversary of his death. “In my mind, I’m thinking about the situation with Derek. It actually happens to be the anniversary of his death, one-year anniversary of his death, today, which is a day only relevant to me, but over the last few weeks, the family and I have been talking about the challenges we faced this time last year.

Derek died in January last year ( Image:Getty Images)

Kate’s discussion with the Labour MP happened on the one-year anniversary of his death ( Image:Kate Garraway Instagram)
“And one of the overriding ones until he went back into intensive care before he passed away, was dealing with the funding of care. At the time of his death, there were two appeals that hadn’t been heard for funding. It kept on getting pushed back and pushed back. In the meantime, and I’m lucky I’ve got an incredible job which is well paid, I was having to fund the situation. Now I’ve got excessive unpayable debt because of it, and if I’m in that position, what else are people going to be? People can’t afford four more years of this?”