Piers Morgan claims he has 'universal support' of the British public despite record 57,000 complaints

• Piers Morgan went on "Tucker Carlson Today" for his first TV interview since Meghan Markle comments.
• Morgan claimed to have the "universal support" of the British public.
• Last month, the British TV regulator Ofcom received over 57,000 complaints about Morgan.

Piers Morgan gave his first television interview to Tucker Carlson since leaving "Good Morning Britain" last month over comments he made about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's tell-all Oprah interview, and he claimed to have the "universal support" of the British public in the row.

Morgan was interviewed virtually by Carlson for his streaming show "Tucker Carlson Today," which is behind a paywall on the new Fox Nation streaming app.

During the interview, Morgan reiterated that he does not believe anything Meghan and Harry said during their interview with Oprah Winfrey and accused Meghan and Harry of the "most extraordinarily disingenuous smear, hit job" on the royal family.

Morgan continued to claim that he has the majority backing of the British public. He said: "Old, young, Black, white, it didn't matter. They've been coming up to me in their droves all day every day."

"The British people have seen through this," he continued.

Last month, however, it was reported that the British broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, received more than 57,000 complaints - the most complaints ever filed with the regulator over a single incident - about the two episodes of "Good Morning Britain" that aired March 8 and March 9 in which Morgan reacted to Meghan and Prince Harry's tell-all interview.

During one of the episodes, Morgan said he didn't believe a word Meghan said in response to a clip in which she described having suicidal thoughts. On the second episode, Morgan stormed off the set during the live broadcast after he was confronted by his colleague, weather presenter Alex Beresford, who accused him of "trashing" Meghan Markle.

Morgan also accused his former co-presenter Alex Beresford of a 'premeditated attack'

Later during the interview with Tucker Carlson, which lasted for more than an hour, Morgan said that he should not have walked off the set but accused his former colleague Alex Beresford, who he described as "the stand-in weather guy who does the weather occasionally," of a "premeditated attack on a personal level".

Speaking about Beresford he added: "He's not a journalist. But he's somebody I've helped with his career a number of times when he's asked me to."

Morgan later said he has received "a lot" of job offers since leaving "Good Morning Britain." He has been widely linked with a new conservative TV channel in the UK called GB News as well as Rupert Murdoch's new television venture News UK TV.

Once again framing the debate around freedom of speech and the so-called "woke-mob," Morgan said: "I should be able to be a journalist and question the veracity of those statements and frankly I should be allowed, in a democracy, that values freedom of speech, I should be allowed to say 'I'm sorry, I don't believe you.'"