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Piers Morgan slams ‘howling’ Remainer Gary Lineker for branding Brexit Parliament shutdown ‘remarkably undemocratic’ in Twitter spat
PIERS Morgan has slammed Remainer Gary Lineker for branding the Brexit Parliament shutdown "remarkably undemocratic".
In a Twitter spat, the Good Morning Britain host said the BBC's top earner had "howled for three years" that the UK should ignore the referendum result.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson got the Queen's permission to suspend Parliament on Wednesday to stop Jeremy Corbyn from trying to block a No Deal exit from the EU.
The Match of the Day host tweeted: “The government’s argument that they’re doing this for democracy is remarkably undemocratic.”
Piers hit back and wrote: "Says the man who has howled for 3yrs that we should ignore the result of a democratic vote…”
However, Gary responded by claiming Brexiteers had been "crooked" in the way Brexit was "sold" to the public.
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He tweeted: “Never have i said that we should ignore the result. That indeed would be undemocratic.
"We could though look at the crooked, lying nature of how it was sold to us back then by the elite now dictating (literally) and decide as a democratic country if that’s still what we want.”
In a sharp-tongued reply, Piers said: "Mate, it doesn’t get more elite than you...as BBC licence fee payers know to our cost.”
The Match of the Day host rakes in £1.75m a year as the BBC's highest paid star.
Gary still didn't back down as he replied: "Mate, it doesn’t get much more elite than ostentatiously showing off your wealth (you constantly tell me you earn way more than me) with a deluge of pictures by marauding, around the Côte d’Azur on a yacht.”
Piers had the last word as he said: "I don’t pretend not to be in the elite... and it’s not my fault I earn far more than you, it’s my talent."
It is not the first time the pair have had a spat over Twitter.
Previously, Piers had said a No Deal Brexit is the "only option".
The pair exchanged insults after Piers called for Brexiteers to “take charge and deliver” Brexit in a bid to break the deadlock.
However Gary, who openly supports a second Brexit referendum, hit back saying he would enjoy seeing Brexiteers “bickering amongst themselves about which version of Brexit they believe will best work”.
Mr Johnson asked the Queen for her approval to suspend proceedings for nearly five weeks from as early as September 9.
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