Since Jeremy Corbyn famously revealed he’s never going “push the button” to launch nuclear weapons to defend the United Kingdom, Piers Morgan has taken down Labour MP after Labour MP on the ITV show over the “ridiculous” stance.
Putting McDonnell on the stand, Morgan, 52, fumed: “You could be in government in four weeks time, but you do not believe in nuclear deterrent and are prepared to have a manifesto spending billions pounds on it.
“Here you are going on about saving money, you are prepared to commit tax-payer’s money and you and Corbyn are not prepared to ever use it and don’t believe in it.”
McDonnell fired back: “It’s a relatively modern greek concept called democracy – we all decide the policies of our party I accept the democratic will of our party.”
Morgan raged: “Do you not understand the optics of this look absolutely ridiculous to the British public?”
“Not at all,” stressed McDonnell. “We want a policy that leads to peace and not to use nuclear deterrent.”
Visibly unimpressed, the GMB firecracker snapped: “But having spent hundreds of billions on trident, you will never use it.”
“I don’t believe you will get to that position, but we are renewing trident,” the Hayes and Harlington MP explained.
Also on today’s programme, Morgan became entangled in blazing row with his co-stars Susanna Reid and Charlotte Hawkins over gender neutrality.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
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