ONE of the country’s most polarising media figures spoke to students about “everything and anything” yesterday.
Piers Morgan, former editor-at-large of the Daily and Sunday Mirror, spoke to a sold-out audience of about 400 students at the Oxford Union in Frewin Court.
The former Britain’s Got Talent judge said he was in “the perfect mood to take on the Oxford Union students” after publicly criticising the new England cricket team director Andrew Strauss for not bringing back sacked South African batsman Kevin Pietersen.
Members of the audience were invited to ask questions to the current editor to US Mail Online during the debate last night.
The sacked CNN anchor came under fire last year after Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Daily and Sunday Mirror, apologised to victims of phone hacking under his tenure.
During the Leveson Inquiry in 2011, Mr Morgan denied any knowledge of phone hacking practices at the paper.
Tonight, double Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will address another sold-out audience at the debating society.
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