John Barnes Brands Piers Morgan ‘Hypocritical’ And ‘Insulting’ Amid Liam Neeson Row

“It is subliminal, because it is not obvious,” John told presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. “It’s very similar to, subliminally, when Piers Morgan and Susanna [Reid] were talking about, ‘I know if I was black, [this is] how I would feel’.

“What they’re actually saying is, ’this is how you should feel’. And for me, that is insulting, and that is condescending. Because there’s no way Piers Morgan and Susanna [Reid] would ever know what it’s like to feel black, or how they would react had they been black.

“So for them to say, ’if I were black I would feel this way, what they’re actually doing is the exact same thing that they’re accusing Liam Neeson of doing. They’re accusing Liam Neeson of looking at one guilty black man and making everybody guilty.

“What they’re saying by that is ‘this is the way black people should feel’. Because this is the way I would feel, which is lumping all black people together.”