The Keir Starmer revelation that we didn’t air

Following my abrupt departure from Good Morning Britain after declining to apologise for disbelieving Meghan ‘Princess Pinocchio’ Markle, I’ve been riding a rare wave of public popularity, with my anti-woke, pro-free speech book Wake Up becoming a no. 1 bestseller and people stopping me in the street to offer support. A lady named Marion from Eastbourne wrote to compare my campaign to that of John Lilburne, the 17th-century English political leveller who coined the term ‘freeborn rights’ and became a champion of liberty. She wrote: ‘Lilburne spent his life fighting for freedom of speech, and for this he was whipped, pilloried, half-starved, exiled, imprisoned and twice put on trial for his life by Oliver Cromwell. He never gave up. You are a strong voice against the woke brigade who are hellbent on destroying our history, language and culture. Keep up the good work.’ I don’t equate being paid not to get out of bed at 4.45 a.m. to what poor Lilburne endured, but we share a common philosophy. As Oscar Wilde is reputed to have said: ‘I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.’

If Sir Keir Starmer wins the next election, he will become our first declared atheist prime minister. Yet in an unaired bit of our three-hour Life Stories interview, the Labour leader thanked God for saving his life. Starmer revealed he and his wife Victoria were once aboard a ‘tiny’ plane while holidaying in the Caribbean when it stuttered after takeoff, then careered 20 yards above the sea, with the cockpit door flapping and a youthful pilot desperately wrestling to stop it crashing into the water. ‘Did you think that was it?’ I asked. ‘Yeah,’ he replied. ‘It was really scary. The plane looked like it would barely hold itself together.