Reports have emerged today that suggest Carol McGiffin quit her role as a panellist on Loose Women after she made comments in public about the Covid-19 pandemic.The 63-year-old presenter is understood to have become embroiled in a spat with ITV bosses over the question of free speech and expression. In an interview she gave with TNT talk radio, Carol allegedly prompted the disagreement due to comments she made to suggest that news organisations had been "brainwashing" the public over the risks of Covid in order to spark widespread mental health breakdowns across the nation.The lunch-time talk-show panellist - who has appeared on the programme since the early 2000s - also suggested the then health secretary Matt Hancock attempted to bring Covid patients from France to the UK to fill empty hospital beds during the height of the pandemic.