End of woke? Not quite but the beginning of the end...and I want a statue in Parliament

Piers Morgan puts his world to rights with Dylan Jones

Let’s get it off your chest, shall we Piers?

How have your ambitions changed since taking the job at TalkTV? 

I had a lot of offers after Meghan Markle decided to force me out of my job. But I like the all-round package of this deal that I did with Rupert Murdoch. TalkTV here, Fox in the US, and columns in The Sun and New York Post. Plus Australia.

Presumably you’d jump at another terrestrial job?

I wouldn’t, no. Because I have done quite a lot of terrestrial television, mainly in America. The Independent diary once ran a story saying that Colin Firth was furious at suggestions he might play me in a movie of my book, The Insider. And he rang me up, and he said: “Piers, first of all, I never turn down work that quickly, and actually I’d be quite happy to play you in a movie, it sounds like it would be quite a fun role.” Which is really cool of him. So I’ve learned never say never to anything. But do I hanker to be back on UK terrestrial television? No. What we’re building with our show is really exciting. The numbers speak for themselves. Good Morning Britain has just over a million YouTube subscribers, and we have two million. 

Okay, so did you become an advocate of free speech by accident or design?