The presenter used his analogy to praise Theresa May for getting us a good deal and attack PM David Cameron for being a terrible negotiator
PIERS Morgan has compared Brexit to buying a Moroccan carpet and praised Theresa May as being the woman to get us a great deal.
The Good Morning Britain presenter made the analogy on Question Time last night, after the Prime Minister came under attack for saying she would take the UK out of the single market.
Mr Morgan instead called her Brexit plan, which she laid out earlier this week, a “great negotiating tactic”, and compared her a holidaymaker bartering to get the best price in a market.
He said: “I was in Marrakesh in Morocco at New Year on holiday. You go into the souks - it’s fantastic, they’ve 1,500 years old. You start trading, start bartering.
“David Cameron is the kind of guy who goes into the first shop and says ‘I love all your carpets. And by the way I’m not leaving until you’ve screwed me over’. That’s what he did.”
He went on: “Theresa May looked at this and went ‘that does not work, does it’.
“She said to the first guy, ‘I quite like your carpets. But I’ve got a really great offer on carpets from a guy called Donald in America and if you don’t do me a great deal I’m going to walk out of your shop and go to Donald do a deal for his carpets’.
“I think that is a great negotiating tactic.”
He earned praise from Brexiteer Michal Gove, who tweeted that the GMB presenter was “bossing it” on the BBC2 show.
And watching the show back he appeared happy with himself too, posting on social media: “Quite pleased I managed to get my Marrakech souks carpet analogy away there...”
