Phillip Schofield gets told off by angry Lord Alan Sugar for warning him about the rise in Covid cases

PHILIP Schofield was told off today by an angry Lord Alan Sugar after he warned him about the rise in Covid cases.

Lord Sugar scolded Phil on This Morning when he defended people who are “scared” to go back into the office amid the rise in UK coronavirus cases.

Lord Sugar, 73, appeared with Apprentice winner Carina Lepore to celebrate the opening of her bakery, but the chat soon turned sour when Phil schooled him on new coronavirus figures showing a rise in cases amongst 17 to 21-year-olds in the UK.

As Phil read out the stats the businessman interupted him, waving his hands in the air.

He raged: “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me …. you can switch the telly on any time of day and all you see is more bad news.

“I’m focusing on myself, my family, and making sure we do right by my staff and do the right thing.

“Those people who like working from home have become complacent – they seem to enjoy it. In my business they’ve all come back.”

He went on: “What are people afraid of? I’ve got a factory down the road from here with 300 people working and they’re doing very well.”

Lord Sugar didn’t stop there and unleased his wrath on the financial sector after Natwest closed it’s London head office and cut 550 jobs.

He said about UK banks: “They’re starting to use the pandemic as an excuse for making mass redundancies.”

This Morning viewers were left divided on Twitter over Lord Sugar’s comments.

One said: “Just seen Alan Sugar on #thismorning – all I got from him was that he doesn’t care about the health & wellbeing of anyone around him. Also people working from home, are still working I’d rather work from home than commute to work using crowded public transport, saves money too”

Another said: “Lord Sugar thinks people should go back to work despite the increase of coronavirus case”