Once we had Dimbleby and Day: now it’s Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan. The two TV pundits have been trading insults this month ahead of last night’s launch of TalkTV, with both now seen as the figureheads of their two respective network channels. There’s Farage, the self-styled saviour of GB News, which launched in June, and Morgan, the well-remunerated controversialist with an eye for the main chance and a love of a good scrap.
The former Daily Mirror editor accused the Brexiteer of trying ‘to sabotage my interview with President Trump in a despicable act of two-faced weasel treachery’ after the two clashed about whether Trump stormed out of his TalkTV interview. Morgan meanwhile proudly trumpeted his ratings this morning, declaring that his broadcast debut got ‘five times the ratings’ of Farage’s show and boasting that he got more than BBC, Sky and GB News combined.
Figures from BARB show Morgan got an average of 317,000 viewers between 8 p.m.
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