The longest hour: Piers Morgan’s excruciating ‘interview’ with Rishi Sunak

Prime minister joined UK Sun God for an exchange of awkward blokey bants, unbased claims and bonfire of vanities

It was the interview Piers Morgan insisted they all wanted - a chance for one lucky person to sit down with him for a whole hour. Piers is the most important person in any room he enters; if you understand that you will get along with him just fine. His ego is in inverse proportion to his self worth. There is Piers World or there is nothing. That level of narcissism must get tiring after a while - the constant struggle to reconfigure reality, the terror of it all falling apart.

Not that Rishi Sunak looked particularly grateful to be granted an audience on TalkTV. Rather he seemed edgy and on guard. As if he would rather have been anywhere else but had been nudged into a game of high stakes macho bullshit politics. He had to prove he was man enough to last an hour with the UK Sun God. He said he would do it a year ago and he's a man who does what he says. Except when he doesn't, of course.