Piers Morgan has announced he will be paying off any parking fine levied on NHS workers during the coronavirus crisis.
The Good Morning Britain host announced his generous offer on this morning's show, amid a rant about hospitals requiring their staff to pay for parking when they arrive for work.
Many doctors, nurses and healthcare workers are having to work overtime without relief as thousands of patients become infected with the deadly COVID-19 virus.
And NHS staff as well as regular people and celebrities have been calling on Boris Johnson's government to waive car-parking fees for health workers who have no other option than to drive in given the risk of infection on public transport.
"I will say now, to any health worker during the future of this crisis, however long it lasts, if any of you get a parking ticket at a hospital where you're working, I will pay it for you. I will pay it," Piers told the nation during a video-chat with Kirstie Allsopp, who is currently self-isolating with her family in her second home in Devon.
"And I will then go to the government and have the battle, you don't get involved. Send it here to Good Morning Britain and I will pay the parking ticket, if that's what it takes," he added.
"I will go halves with you on those parking tickets, Piers. I totally get that," Kirstie vowed.
Piers' co-host Susanna Reid, who is reporting from home after going into self-isolation, heralded his grand announcement in a tweet.
"BREAKING: @piersmorgan offers to pay the parking tickets of any NHS health worker who gets fined during this crisis. Says he will be the one who goes into battle with authorities who enforce them," she wrote.
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV
