Perhaps the most cathartic moment of The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards was when the relatively quiet former PM Theresa May had a pop at the not-so-quiet Piers Morgan.
Picking up her award for Speech of the Year, May did acknowledge her weak reputation as a rhetorician. But she got Piers where it hurts:
I’m really pleased that I have been recognised for my abilities for speaking. I just only hope that somebody is going to tell Donald Trump. Obviously, those of who who didn’t hear what Donald Trump said about my speaking clearly didn’t read The Spectator!… But he once said he would pay £100,000 not to hear me speak.
It was Piers Morgan who reported that, and at the same time Piers told the story of having spoken to me for 20 minutes at a Spectator party. He went home, he said, and said he couldn’t remember a single thing that I had told him. If it’s any consolation Piers, I couldn’t remember a single thing that you asked me. Indeed, I don’t remember speaking to you at all. Of course, that hasn’t stopped him from constantly asking me for an interview. Although I guess it’s hard to get guests for TalkTV…
Ouch. Listen to it in full here:
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