Piers Morgan wants to take over from 'absolutely embarrassing' Theresa May: 'I'd be brilliant'

Piers Morgan has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed “absolutely embarrassing” Theresa May as Prime Minister.

The Good Morning Britain presenter, 54, argued his case on Wednesday’s show claiming he has a “special relationship” with President Donald Trump and that he would have sacked anyone plotting and acting disruptive in his cabinet.

Morgan took aim at Mrs May, who has served as Prime Minister since 2016, for not stepping down sooner over Brexit, describing her leadership as “cringe making”.

Morgan pledged his case after Susanna Reid jokingly built him up as the best possible replacement as Jerusalem played in the background, before branding him “hopeless”.

“It's time to step up,” she said. “Someone whose initials are also the same as Prime Minister. Someone people have clamoured for for weeks, months and years since the Referendum result of 2016.

“I'm talking about the PM, the man they... no I'm not talking about you, you'd be a hopeless Prime Minister.”

Unperturbed by her lack of faith, Morgan replied: “I’d be brilliant. I’d have a very special relationship with the President of the United States. We would sort the new world order out and I’d get stuff done. First sign of a cabinet rebellion early on, bang, out all of you.”

He branded Johnson a “naughty boy” and said he would have put Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling “in a taxi if I didn't think he’d crash it”.

He finished: “Leaders have to lead. You have to have total loyalty otherwise out, gone.”

Morgan branded Mrs May “stubborn,” claiming she is refusing to step down in a bid to last longer than Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

“People say she's doing her best,” he said. “Her best is terrible. She’s showing stubbornness. What we’re seeing is blind selfish stubborness. She wants to stay for another three weeks so she outlasts Gordon Brown's tenure so she doesn't look like on the chart that she didn't last as long as him. Absolutely embarrassing.”

Viewers appeared to rejoice at the idea of Morgan moving into 10 Downing Street with one tweeting: “Absolutely! Talks more sense than any current MP that’s for sure.”

Another wrote: “Piers for PM, Jeremy Clarkson his defence secretary, now what a team that would be.”

Even his critics weren’t averse to the idea, with one posting: “I'd vote for him and I don't like him.”

Morgan last year kick started a campaign to replace Mrs May after her “shambolic” cabinet reshuffle, with a GMB poll revealing 57 per cent would want him in government.

It came a year after he launched the hashtag “PMforPM” after visiting Downing Street with Reid.

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