Good Morning Britain's Adil Ray and Kate Garraway issue clarification after Angela Rayner's 'criminal' comments

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Kate Garraway was forced to issue a brief clarification following an interview with Angela Rayner. The Labour deputy leader appeared on the ITV news programme on Wednesday morning (April 20), the day after Boris Johnson faced MPs in the House of Commons for the first time since he was fined for breaking lockdown rules.

The 54-year-old presenter and co-host Adil Ray were joined by Ms Rayner via video link from Westminster and Kate wasted no time in asking her if it was time to 'accept Boris Johnson's apology, accept he paid the fine and move on to tackling the things I know you care about and the country cares about,' before referring to issues such as the cost of living crisis. "Or do we need to keep going and push him on it," Kate added ahead of the Prime Minister facing a further grilling over Partygate after MPs were granted a vote later this week on whether Mr Johnson misled parliament, despite him saying he didn't intentionally mislead Parliament with his earlier denials of rule-breaking parties. READ MORE: Good Morning Britain's Adil Ray calls out Kate Garraway for name blunder after she says he has 'nasty streak' Addressing the House as it returned from its Easter recess, Mr Johnson apologised dozens of times for the “mistake” that saw him fined by police over the event in No 10 for his birthday in June 2020.

In response to Kate's question, Ms Rayner said: "For months now Boris Johnson has been trying to avoid this issue and the vote tomorrow is about going to the privileges committee which will look at whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled the house when he said he didn't know about the parties which obviously we now know he did." She added: "I don't think we can move on until the Prime Minister is truthful