This Morning: Matthew Wright accuses guest of sharing ‘neo-Nazi ideas’ as they clash over vaccine passports
Beverley Turner claimed that vaccine passports would ‘end’ with humans being microchipped
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Your support makes all the difference.Matthew Wright accused a This Morning guest of sharing “neo-Nazi ideas” during a discussion about coronavirus vaccine passports.
The former The Wright Stuff presenter joined hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on the ITV talk show on Friday (26 March) where they discussed the potential use of vaccine passports in UK pubs and restaurants.
TV presenter Beverley Turner argued that we should stop vaccinating people once the most at-risk groups had received their jab, saying: “It’s an experimental vaccine and it’s risk versus benefit. Please look it up, get some facts, do not just listen to the propaganda.”
Turner also claimed that vaccine passports would “end” with humans being microchipped to prove that they had been vaccinated and get into venues.
With his head in hands in response, Matthew Wright replied that virus mutation was the biggest problem in the future.
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“I did listen to you Beverley, as quietly as I could, talking paranoid conspiracy nonsense, quite frankly, with an evident lack of science.
“The idea that you are still talking about herd immunity, which does not exist without vaccinations. You are talking about, essentially neo-Nazi ideas, letting the weak die, only the strong will survive, it’s an absolute outrage.”
Turner replied that it was “ridiculous” of Wright to compare her comments to Nazis “when we are being told we have to show our papers before going to a restaurant”.
Earlier this week, Boris Johnson suggested that pub landlords could be given powers to bar unvaccinated drinkers from entering their establishments.
However, cabinet minister Robert Jenrick confirmed on Friday that a vaccine passport system would not be in place in time for 17 May, the date when pubs, restaurants and cinemas can begin hosting guests inside.