Piers Morgan has branded Miriam Margolyes ‘disgusting’, after the actress admitted she ‘wanted Boris Johnson to die’. The 78-year-old, known for playing Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter movies, appeared on Channel 4’s The Last Leg remotely on Friday night, when she was asked how she thought the government’s handling of the pandemic was. ‘Appallingly, of course, appallingly,’ she said. ‘It’s a disgrace, it’s a scandal.
It’s a public scandal.’ Referencing Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation for coronavirus, Margolyes continued: ‘I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die.
I wanted him to die. Then I thought that will reflect badly on me and I don’t want to be the sort of person that wants people to die. ‘ So then I wanted him to get