Piers Morgan accuses Labour’s Emily Thornberry of ignoring 17.4million Leave voters and asking Brits to Remain again is completely unfair

PIERS Morgan today accused Emily Thornberry of ignoring 17.4million Leave voters by putting Remain on the ballot of a second Brexit referendum.

The Good Morning Britain presenter and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary had a fuming clash live on air this morning.

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She insisted that any second vote had to have the option of "the status quo" but Piers said it was "unfair" to ignore the first result.

He blasted: "Here's the problem - 75 per cent of Parliament are Remainers. People are feeling, with understandable mounting anger, that their democratic vote is being thwarted by an establishment Parliament which is mostly Remainers.

"We don't just have a referendum and ignore the result!"

He said it would give Remain an unfair advantage if they put up Mrs May's hated Brexit deal to a public vote against Remain.

"You're tryign to re-run the original referendum," he added.

Ms Thornberry, who openly admits she wants Britain to Remain but still claims to be trying to implement the referendum, hit back: "You were promised lots of things you would get - now we have the reality."

But Piers went on: "Labour has no interest in trying to implement the result... but your party manifesto was to leave."

Ms Thornberry interrupted: "But not to leave in this way!"

Her party wants a close relationship with the EU where we stay tied to the bloc in trading rules and stay in the customs union too - meaning no trade deals around the world.

"But people who voted to leave don't believe that accurately reflects what they voted for," Piers added.

Co-host Susanna Reid added: "You don't believe in leaving the EU, do you? You say the best deal is to Remain!

"You say the deal is a bad deal and you hope the people will say 'so let's Remain'.

"You're disagreeing with the people who voted to leave."

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Ms Thornberry said Brexit was like trying to take the egg out of an omelette and insisted Labour has tried to get a deal after weeks of talks with Theresa May over her deal.

Talks collapsed last week, but yesterday Mrs May tried to make an offer to Labour MPs to woo them over.

The attempt has fallen totally flat with MPs across the spectrum saying it's not good enough.

And Tories in the PM's own party are furious at her leaving the door open to a second referendum and staying in a customs union.

Some are so enraged they are trying to force through a fresh attempt to boot her out today and let someone else take over.