GMB host Kate Garraway calls out Wes Streeting for ‘excessive debt’ after caring for late husband

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kate Garraway confronted Wes Streeting on Good Morning Britain for “excessive, unpayable debt” she built up while caring for her late husband. open image in gallery Kate Garraway and Wes Streeting on ‘Good Morning Britain’ “I think that’s why your story connected with so many people. “It’s also because your experience with Derek, and your family’s experience resonates with so many people across the country who are struggling with the same costs or the same unmet needs or similar experiences.” He agreed that there needs to be a change around who should provide costs of social care, telling Garraway and her co-host Adil Ray: “I think one of the reasons why we’ve always ended back into this short-termist cycle of failure is: whenever we talk about social care, there are costs involved. “One of the reasons I genuinely think - even with the majority of the size that we’ve got - it’s a good thing to try and build cross-party consensus, is I want to come up with a plan that means whoever’s in government after the next general election or the one after that, whether it’s a Labour government or a Conservative government or a coalition, or whoever, that broadly speaking, we keep the same direction of travel on social care in the way that we have with the NHS since 1948.” open image in gallery West Streeting on ‘Good Morning Britain’ Mr Streeting was speaking as he announced the first steps towards creating a National Care Service, with an independent commission expected to begin in the spring.