![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/good-morning-britains-ed-balls-in-fiery-clash-with-tory-mp-over-mental-health/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_MIRROR-MAIN.jpg&description=Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls was in a fiery clash with Tory MP Maria Caulfield on the ITV daytime programme today over mental health support in UK schools Ed Balls was in a fiery clash with a Tory MP on Good Morning Britain today as they quizzed the minister for mental health. Roman Kemp appeared on the ITV breakfast show this morning after he wrote an open letter to the government urging them to commit to having 100 per cent of schools signed up for mental health support rather than just their target of 36 per cent. After Roman's impassioned plea, Ed and his co-host Susanna Reid grilled Maria Caulfield, the mental health minister. During the conversation, things soon got heated as Ed Balls quizzed why Ms Caulfield and her team hadn't responded to Roman yet. As she continued to evade the question, Ed fumed: "Well that's not the answer to my question is it? No I'm answering you a particular question. Why did you do nothing to respond to Roman Kemp, why did you do nothing?" As Ms Caulfield said she had been meeting with bereaved families, she said it was "so important to speak to people who don't get hat opportunity to speak out", but Ed doubled down and insisted that she still wasn't answering the question as he said: "You do know you're not answering my question do you?" Ms Caulfield responded: "I am answering your question," to which presenter Ed retorted: "No you're not answering my question. My question is very simple." Two days ago, Roman revealed on The News Agents podcast that he hadn't heard from the minister, saying: "To be totally honest with you when I when I first tried to reach out and speak to the current Mental Health Secretary [Minister] I was rejected, and I wasn't allowed to speak to them... Maria Caulfield. Basically, I wasn't allowed a meeting with her. Which is fine, that does happen. They're busy people. But seeing as I haven't got any response, I'm starting to wonder, 'Oh, is this a conversation they're wanting to avoid?' "Currently, the){kind=link}
Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls was in a fiery clash with Tory MP Maria Caulfield on the ITV daytime programme today over mental health support in UK schools
Ed Balls was in a fiery clash with a Tory MP on Good Morning Britain today as they quizzed the minister for mental health.
Roman Kemp appeared on the ITV breakfast show this morning after he wrote an open letter to the government urging them to commit to having 100 per cent of schools signed up for mental health support rather than just their target of 36 per cent. After Roman’s impassioned plea, Ed and his co-host Susanna Reid grilled Maria Caulfield, the mental health minister.
During the conversation, things soon got heated as Ed Balls quizzed why Ms Caulfield and her team hadn’t responded to Roman yet. As she continued to evade the question, Ed fumed: “Well that’s not the answer to my question is it? No I’m answering you a particular question. Why did you do nothing to respond to Roman Kemp, why did you do nothing?”
As Ms Caulfield said she had been meeting with bereaved families, she said it was “so important to speak to people who don’t get hat opportunity to speak out”, but Ed doubled down and insisted that she still wasn’t answering the question as he said: “You do know you’re not answering my question do you?”