It’s no secret that Piers Morgan is not happy with the government’s ‘boycott’ of Good Morning Britain.
It has been 146 days since a minister was last on the ITV programme - and Piers, 55, is not one to let us forget it.
So imagine his ire when today Matt Hancock appeared in the ITV studio... only to walk over to the This Morning sofa, which is next door to GMB.
Piers ranted in a tweet, branding the health secretary ‘gutless’ for swerving his questioning, which is infamously hardline and confrontational.
Mr Hancock instead chatted to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield as chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty laid the ground for strict new controls in an urgent push to stop the ongoing surge in new coronavirus infections across the UK.
Piers, who would have finished his GMB shift just an hour before Mr Hancock was on air, was obviously raging after seeing Mr Hancock in the GMB studios ahead of his interview.
He tweeted: “Great to see 'fearless' @MattHancock back in the @GMB studios just now.
“Just a shame he waited until we were off air so he could sneak onto This Morning's sofa, 30 feet away from our desk.
“He's boycotted us for 146 days. History won't be kind to our gutless Health Secretary.”
Piers also took aim at Boris Johnson for not appearing at today’s press briefing in person.
The ITV host accuse the prime minister of “hiding behind experts”, including Mr Whitty and the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.
Piers wrote: “Outrageous that @BorisJohnson was not at that briefing.
“Hiding behind the experts is so typically gutless of him throughout this pandemic. The classic armchair general.”
Mr Johnson spent the weekend with senior ministers and advisers discussing what action to take as the rise in the number of new cases showed no sign of slowing.
It is thought the PM could announce new measures in a press conference as early as Tuesday.
