From Meghan’s ‘social climbing’ to ‘fascist wokery’, the broadcaster has built a career on being outraged. He has even fallen out with his friend Donald Trump. Is he really so thin-skinned?
Piers Morgan is angry. Even by his puce-faced standards, he is fuming. The Good Morning Britain (GMB) presenter, Twitter bruiser (7.6 million followers and counting, as he will frequently remind you) and frenemy of Donald Trump is waging war on woke. “Wokery has been hijacked by extremely illiberal people bordering on fascist – ironically given how much they hate fascism,” he tells me while shadow boxing invisible foes.
We’re in a dressing room at Television Centre in west London, from where GMB is broadcast. Morgan is having his photo taken and letting rip. Liberal fascists are taking over the world, he says; John Locke, the father of liberalism, will be spinning in his enlightened grave. The very folk once renowned for their tolerance are now shutting down opinion like there is no tomorrow. And, if it goes on like this, Morgan thinks there may well be no tomorrow. You want examples of fascist wokery? He’ll give you examples, all right.
