Labour has called for a reported 8,000 private hospital beds to be made available in a bid to cope with the impact of coronavirus .
The GMB union and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the Government to requisition beds in "plush private hospitals" to ease the burden on the NHS.
Mr Ashworth said it would be "completely wrong" for Boris Johnson not to use all the resources available to tackle the crisis.
The GMB said there are at least 570 private hospitals in the UK with 8,000 around beds. The union's general secretary Tim Roache said: "The Prime Minister says this is 'the worst public health crisis for a generation' - well he needs to start acting like it. "It can't be right that we have plush private hospitals
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