It was the plot-twist in the Covid drama nobody expected. At the start of the pandemic, Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan quickly became the self-appointed Robespierre of the lockdown movement. Anyone who broke the rules, or did not support tighter restrictions, was in his eyes a killer, responsible for untold deaths as the virus spread.
But is Morgan now realising things are more complicated than that. This week Morgan criticised Labour’s Barry Gardiner for breaking lockdown to attend a non-socially distanced Black Lives Matter protest. Then Guido Fawkes revealed that Morgan’s son had attended a Black Lives Matter demo in London. At the moment it is still forbidden to congregate in groups of larger than six with those in another household, even if everyone remains 2m apart. It goes without saying that the recent BLM demos have involved more than six people, and many in the crowd were not socially distancing anyway.
Strikingly, Morgan did not condemn this flouting of lockdown rules.
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