Hugh Grant says UK is ‘f***ed’ and calls Tories ‘bonkers’ after Matt Hancock’s This Morning interview

The ‘Paddington 2’ actor shared a clip from ‘This Morning’

Actor Hugh Grant has voiced his frustration at the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.

In recent weeks, the Notting Hill star has used his social media account to re-share tweets and posts criticising Boris Johnson and the Conservative party for their leadership during the pandemic and on Tuesday (12 May) he expressed his own opinion on the matter.

Grant, 59, reshared a clip taken from ITV daytime programme This Morning, which saw presenter Phillip Schofield ask health secretary Matt Hancock whether he was really saying that people could see their two parents separately 10 minutes apart, but not together under new lockdown guidance.

“But don’t you see that that’s utterly bonkers,” the presenter replied, with Grant in agreement as he seemingly replied to Schofield’s comment.

“It is. They are. We’re f***ed,” he wrote.

The This Morning interview followed after Schofield launched a scathing attack on the government as he described the “utter confusion” he felt watching the Prime Minister’s lockdown update on Sunday night.

“You literally couldn’t write this,” the presenter said. “If this was in a farce on the telly, I’d go, ‘That’s a bit far fetched.”

Meanwhile, Grant has used his time in lockdown to put his support behind the NHS, starring in a video thanking healthcare workers for keeping going during the pandemic as well as surprising a four-year-old cancer patient with a video as his Paddington 2 character.