To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Piers Morgan became increasingly agitated after Laura Kuenssberg pressed him on his knowledge of phone hacking while he was a newspaper editor. Viewers of BBC politics show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg said Morgan, 59, looked ‘stroppy’ when the journalist, 47, asked whether he listened to voicemails without consent. Morgan denied any knowledge of phone hacking and insisted there was ‘no evidence’ he had been involved in the scandal, which rocked the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).
Morgan was the Daily Mirror’s editor between 1995 and 2004. Last year a High Court judge concluded that ‘there can be no doubt’ that editors of MGN’s titles knew about voicemail interception, but did not tell the company’s board or chief executive about it. Mr Justice Fancourt ruled that unlawful information-gathering was ‘widespread’ at MGN publications The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror and The People 1996 onwards, and phone hacking became ‘habitual’ from 1998.
On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the host asked Morgan: ‘Did you know that anyone at the paper was using material that they got by hacking voicemails?’ Morgan responded: ‘On this central point, I’ve said for 20 years I did not know about phone hacking of the Daily Mirror. ‘They found one story in that whole case, which may or may not have come from phone hacking. And, I’m sorry, that’s not enou.
