Jacob Rees-Mogg got off to an impressive start on GB News last night – at least by Piers Morgan’s standards.
The Tory MP made his TV debut on the news channel at 8pm, going toe-to-toe with Morgan over at TalkTV.
According to BARB figures, Rees-Mogg took in an average of 79,200 viewers for the hour. Piers, meanwhile, took in a mere 35,300, meaning the MP for North East Somerset more than doubled Morgan’s average throughout the show.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, topics discussed on the show include the news that James Bond novels are to be reissued with racial references removed.
Toby Young argued against the approach, saying “modern readers” are the ones who need to be adapted, not the “classic works” of Ian Flemming.
Earlier on, Rees-Mogg promised he wouldn’t ‘do a Hancock’ by going into the jungle as he promoted his new line of work on Good Morning Britain.
Susanna Reid, who once sat next to Morgan on the popular breakfast show, didn’t seem so convinced:
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