Piers Morgan: 'Me and Trump? There's an icy glacier between us at the moment'

Here, the Big Beast of British media answers the Standard’s Christmas questionnaire. We asked him about everyone from Donald Trump and Joe Biden, to Benjamin Netanyahu and Kamala Harris, and from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall. He expounds on everything from Israel and Gaza to Ulez and Rupert Murdoch. We suggest drinking a double espresso before diving in… 

The various pro-Palestinian marches that have taken place over the last month or so, especially in London, have galvanised and infuriated the media and the public in equal measure. What are your feelings?

Well, it exposes the massive hypocrisy of the left in my estimation, and I speak as someone who is historically slightly left of centre myself – I edited The Mirror for ten years. I think is has exposed their rank hypocrisy, frankly, because I saw a banner yesterday saying 'Queers for Palestine'. If they’d ever been to Hamas-run Gaza and tried to put that banner up above their heads, they’d be thrown off a roof.

These are the same people who’ve spent the last ten years demonising any conservative speakers, de-platforming them from universities, even Bill Maher – and he’s a liberal. He got banned from speaking at Berkeley, which is the home of free speech, because they were worried there could be too much violence. The whole thing was absurd. And I kept saying how ridiculous it is with de-platforming, at a university, conservative views. The whole point of university is to have your own views challenged by hearing a disparate range of opinions. That’s why I think education at the moment is still behind. So now you have the very same people who spent the last ten years, from their self-righteous woke positions, screaming about how we cannot indulge any of these people… they are now supporting Hamas, who just committed one of the worst terror attacks in history. So