Good Morning Britain presenter Ben Shephard has pressed the Government on whether the relaxation of Christmas rules were a 'mistake'.
Speaking to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove, Ben revealed the story of a woman who had seen three generations of her family die due to the virus.
Tracy Latham, 50, from Derby, told DerbyshireLive that she believes Prime Minister Boris Johnson has 'blood on his hands' after her partner, his parents and another family member all passed away after catching the disease.
The family, who had been shielding since March, met up on Christmas Day after the Government relaxed rules and allowed households to meet for one day only.
Tracy says her life has been ruined after the 'horrendous' loss of her partner, 48-year-old Darren Fisher, who she was due to marry in July of this year.
Speaking to Mr Gove, Ben said: "One of the things that Dr Clarke brought up was that recently she's seen three generations of the same family come in and all suffer from Covid and all die because they mixed at Christmas, which was advice from the Prime Minister that we could mix at Christmas.
"Even though of course, the virus didn't get the memo to have the day off.
"She has seen three generations of the same family die because of a policy that your Government and the Prime Minister allowed to go ahead.
"Is that something you realise now was a mistake?"
Mr Gove began to reply: "Well, again, words can't convey how sad any of us would feel about the deaths of three members of a family."
"Was it a mistake?" Ben interrupted.
Mr Gove then said: "Again, I think my approach would be to concentrate on doing better every day on those things where we can improve."
"Yes, but do you see that as a mistake now?" Ben pressed.
"No, I'd say that in due course we'll have an opportunity to look back and review all the decisions," Mr Gove said before being cut off again.
"Mr Gove, we're in the second wave now, which is more devastating than the first wave," Ben said.
"Many people would have said that the time to look back was between the first wave and the second wave.
"For you to be turning round and saying 'we're going to have time to look back down the line', what if we have a third wave and we're still not deciding that we're going to look back and admit that there were mistakes made and we need to learn from them.
"I think what the British public want to hear is you standing up and being honest and saying 'we've made some mistakes, these are mistakes that we will rectify and we won't allow to happen again'.
"If you're saying you're going to look at this down the line, these mistakes are going to keep happening."
Mr Gove then added: "I think it is the case that we've improved our response in a number of areas. The number of people being tested has risen dramatically. Contact tracing has improved. The vaccine rollout has made sure that we vaccinated more people than any other European country.
"These are all areas where the Government and those whom we work with have been learning in real time about how to improve."
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