Sunak contacted my mother over NHS experience, says Piers Morgan

Rishi Sunak contacted Piers Morgan’s 79-year-old mother after the TalkTV presenter revealed her lengthy wait in A&E.
Piers Morgan said the Prime Minister contacted his mother following an interview on TalkTV (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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Dominic McGrath6 February 2024
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Rishi Sunak contacted Piers Morgan’s 79-year-old mother after the TalkTV presenter revealed her lengthy wait in A&E.

The broadcaster used an interview with the Prime Minister to challenge him on the state of the NHS, telling Mr Sunak the experience his own mother had three months ago after having a heart attack.

Morgan told the Prime Minister that, despite being driven to the hospital in an ambulance, she waited on a trolley in an A&E corridor for nearly seven hours to be seen, in a scene she compared to a “war zone”.

The Prime Minister said the account was “shocking” and that performance in A&E and with ambulance waiting times was “not good enough”.

He called her for 10 minutes and had a really lovely chat with her

Piers Morgan

But he denied that the Tories had failed the NHS since 2010, citing the backlog created by the coronavirus pandemic.

“We can’t escape that,” he added.

In his latest TalkTV show, Morgan revealed that the Prime Minister contacted his mother following the interview.

He said he was not originally going to say it, but wanted to challenge criticism from journalist Isabel Oakeshott about the Prime Minister’s reaction to the story.

“I will just to be balanced about it because the idea he doesn’t care, for example, about my mother and what happened to her and whatever facial reaction he showed at the time, I can tell you he sent her a big bunch of flowers yesterday and he followed it up and called her.

“He called her for 10 minutes and had a really lovely chat with her.

“My mother was very touched by both the flowers and the phone call and greatly appreciated what he said to her.”

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