Piers Morgan has identified a huge flaw with the 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants across England, which will be confirmed by Boris Johnson on Tuesday evening.
From Thursday, pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues must have a 10pm closing time in a renewed effort to stop the spread of coronavirus.
This move echoes the rules imposed on many areas of the North East last week as the region became subject to local lockdown measures.
Scenes from Friday night in Newcastle city centre showed venues looking a lot quieter than usual but Good Morning Britain host Piers think the early closing time will just encourage Brits to drink more and drink quicker.
Taking to Twitter he posted: "Hearing @BorisJohnson is going to order pubs to close at 10pm from tomorrow.
"What possible difference is that going to make? Does he think Covid respects opening hours?
Challenged by one of his followers who said they thought the curfew would have the desired effect, Piers hit back: "Speaking as someone who grew up in a pub, I imagine this will just make people drink more, faster."
Slamming the Government further on Tuesday's GMB, Piers accused them of scaremongering, hitting out at Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance over their, in his words "farce of a briefing" on Monday as the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Officer addressed the nation and warned that we could see 50,000 cases of coronavirus a day by mid-October.
He ranted: "I'm trying to expose the farce of what happened yesterday.
"They didn't take questions which I thought was a bit like North Korea!
"If you're going to drop those bombshells on people...and they deliberately used that 50,000 figure to terrify everybody."
