Piers Morgan

The population does not want this suppression of free speech.

It's funny you mentioned the word buffoon.

Well, I mean, that's axiomatic.

Boris doesn't know how many children he has.

I'll tell you why.

I once interviewed him for GQ.

And I said, Boris, this is 2008-9.

I said, Boris, I've always thought that lurking beneath the buffoon exterior lies a sharp, calculating political mind that wants to be prime minister.

He wasn't even a sort of politician at the time.

He looked at me and he said, you must consider the...

the possibility that lurking beneath the buffoon exterior is an actual buffoon.

True.

So he was right.

No, he was- I can't say we weren't warned.

But the point is, look, it's not like- He's not a fascist though, Boris Johnson.

He's an authoritarian.

But it diminishes the word fascist when you say that about people.

If you have three times as many arrests for speech crimes, it's more authoritarian.

I've not seen that stat.

If that is true, it's because we have been so appalling in protecting free speech.