In 2021, Piers Morgan asked Labour leader Keir Starmer whether he took drugs at university 14 times. But should he have? Read more on Grazia.
With a general election on the horizon, we look back at Keir Starmer's interview with Piers Morgan in 2021for one of his Life Stories interviews. The fact Keir chose to do this a month after Labour’s savage defeat in the local elections – with him often accused of being boring, too elusive and unable to connect with the electorate – could be purely coincidental… though, I think we all know it isn’t.
'Have you ever dabbled in anything stronger than alcohol?' Piers asked. Keir replied: 'We worked hard and played hard.' When pressed again he said: 'Drugs weren't my thing.' Piers went on: 'Given your clear reluctance to give me a straight, simple answer, am I right in assuming from your response that you have tried drugs but that you didn't actually like them and didn't want to take any more? I'm not saying it was your thing, but you did try it.
But what’s more is that this exact question is one Piers once said no one should ever answer. When asked in awhether he’d done drugs he replied: 'My advice is, never answer that one.' So why ask it, Piers? Well, in the hope his interviewee will let their guard slip and reveal too much. But Keir is too clever for that. Piers can spin Keir’s refusal to answer all he wants, but we know the translation is: ‘Piers couldn’t get information out of a politician and Keir beat him at his own game.
He went on: ‘I'm not proud of taking drugs and I'm not going to take them again. I worked out that they make you feel c**p.'
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