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Piers Morgan is a shameless brown-noser. But maybe he’s on the right track

Trump could be headed for a meltdown and he sees an opportunity to be David Frost

issue 21 January 2017

A few weeks ago I was having an argument with Piers Morgan on Twitter. Oh God, is that really how I’m going to start this column? What have I become? I was, though, and it started because he was brown-nosing Donald Trump. We’re talking a real nasal frottage here. I expressed derision, and he expressed fury at my derision, and on it went. At one point he called me ‘tough guy’. It was all very manly. Although it wasn’t a one-off, because he’s been at it — I mean the brown-nosing — ever since, including in this very magazine. A column here, a TV appearance there. Last weekend, he was bickering about Trump with Alastair Campbell on Peston. And I’ve been wondering what’s going on.

Morgan is not Farage. He has his flaws as a journalist and, I suspect, as a human, but I’ve always held him in relatively high esteem.

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