SOME Government ministers have been branded "useless and completely out of their depth" over their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after the UK death toll passed 100,000 yesterday.

Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick was lambasted over the Government's handling of the pandemic during morning interviews and by Labour.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Jenrick said: "The Prime Minister that I have watched throughout this crisis has approached this with huge seriousness.

“He is someone who himself came close to death as a result of the virus and that had a huge and lasting impact on him and his family, as you would expect.”

However presenter Piers Morgan told Mr Jenrick “some of your colleagues… they’re useless” and “completely out of their depth” in a scathing criticism of their handling of the crisis.

Mr Jenrick replied: “We are all working under immense strain, but that is no excuse, we all have to make sure that we are making the best possible decisions that we can with the information that is available to us.”

Earlier this morning, he told the Today Programme the Government did "all we possibly could to shield people and to help the country through this period”.

“I’m sure that we could or would have done some things differently with the benefit of hindsight, almost certainly.

"I can give you this assurance, that on each occasion the Prime Minister and Health Secretary took the best possible scientific and medical advice, they  took their responsibilities extremely seriously."

The Government's actions over the past year were criticised by Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who said a “litany of errors” by the Government led to the UK reaching 100,000 coronavirus deaths.

He added:  “I’m sorry to say it, I really am, but I just don’t believe that the Government did do everything we could.”

He blamed the Prime Minister for being too lenient with coronavirus measures, adding: “He likes to deliver good news, he doesn’t like to disappoint people… but the reality is that a lot of the time you should just be straight with people.”

He also tore into the Government over its inaction at the borders, adding: "We should have had comprehensive border controls in for the past year.

“Priti Patel and Boris Johnson, they tell us they want to take control of their borders, but the one time it actually mattered, and they needed to take control of our borders to protect us, they failed."