We are 30 minutes into our interview and Piers Morgan has already called Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and most of the Cabinet “gutless little weasels” at least five times.
Six, if you include his use of the same phrase while addressing the Government live on Good Morning Britain yesterday morning.
But it is little wonder he and co-presenter Susanna Reid are so fired up – this Saturday will mark 200 days since the Government refused to put up a minister on the ITV show.
And Piers is now considering desperate measures. “I will dress up as the Mirror Chicken to harangue them, I am serious,” he laughs. “You can go and find me the old Mirror Chicken outfit and we can squawk at them.” Piers, 55, and Susanna, 49, are talking to me from their
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