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LORRAINE Kelly has lashed out at Home Secretary Priti Patel after thousands of people "died on her watch".

The Good Morning Britain presenter told Ms Patel she had failed to ensure international arrivals were quarantined to stop the spread of coronavirus.

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 Lorraine Kelly told Priti Patel she thought it was bizarre there wasn't any quarantine for international visitors
Lorraine Kelly told Priti Patel she thought it was bizarre there wasn't any quarantine for international visitorsCredit: ITV

Lorraine said she thought it was "utterly bizarre" there weren't adequate measures in place such as testing or isolation to ensure international visitors didn't bring coronavirus into the UK.

She said: "I wonder how you are coping on a human level, because on your watch (there have been) so many deaths.

"People are saying it could be as high as 60,000, the Prime Minister was at death's door."

Ms Patel argued travel has been down by 97% and that those arriving are here for trading purposes or returning expats.

The Foreign Office have told people not to travel for non-essential reasons indefinitely, but there has been a huge effort to bring back almost a million Brits stranded abroad. 

Boris Johnson said on Sunday international arrivals would begin facing a 14 day period of isolation upon entering the UK as part of the plan to exit lockdown.

Lorraine told Ms Patel the UK had been "woeful" on testing and PPE.

The host brought up the bullying accusations against the Home Secretary, saying: "You've come in for an awful lot of criticism, remember when you took the Downing Street briefing, you got a lot of criticism for that.

"You've been accused of bullying, you've been accused of all sorts of things.

"As a human being, how do you deal with that every day and get up and go and do your work and carry on?"

Ms Patel said she was doing her best to deal with the crisis and was not easily shaken by criticism.

She said: "Well first of all Lorraine, I'm a politician.

"My main priority is to serve my country and to serve the Prime Minister who’s put me in this role and to do the best job that I possibly can.

"I cannot let that criticism get to me. We’re in a national emergency and all of us, collectively, are doing our utmost to stop the spread of this virus."

She added: "I’m here to serve, to deliver for the British public.”

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