Good Morning Britain viewers 'turn off' as 'ashamed to be English' debate escalates with Ed Balls clash

Good Morning Britain viewers found themselves 'turning off' the latest edition of the show as a debate about being 'ashamed to be English' escalated. Susanna Reid and Ed Balls were back at the helm of the ITV news programme on Tuesday (April 25) when it was posed to viewers if they were proud to be English.

They welcomed guests Narinder Kaur and Thomas Skinner after the former The Apprentice star came under fire for his social media post on St George's Day on Sunday (April 23). The pair were on the programme to give then differing views in the debate but things quickly became heated.

Narinder argued that the England flag had been 'hijacked' and there was nothing to be proud of. But when Ed Balls disagreed, she branded him "ignorant".

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Narinder commented: "You know we should have national pride, I feel Englishmen and women should feel proud. But we can't feel proud when that flag has been hijacked by far right groups and what it actually represents is ideology that by some virtue of a piece of cloth, we are superior to other nations.

"We conveniently forget our history of slavery links, of colonisation and history of genocide and everything we've built up and most countries that celebrate independence day - and I've seen a lot of people on social media say well Ireland celebrated and America celebrated - they celebrate because they're celebrating coming out of tyranny or invasion."

Ed tried to cut in as he commented: "By the way, we did save Europe from fascism by defeating Hitler and pushing him back, with the help of others." But Narinder wasn't having any of it as she hit back: "It doesn't really work like that. It doesn't work like that because