Piers Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara on 30 March 1965 in Newick, Sussex, England, to Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish-born dentist, originally from County Offaly, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver).
After his parent's divorce, he took his stepfather's surname and became known as Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan. Piers attended the independent school Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Priory School for sixth form. Morgan studied Law at Harlow College. [1]
He was selected to stand in the General Election 1987, at the Conservative, safe seat of Streatham, having been controlled since the constituency was created during the General election of 1885. On 11 June, 1987, Piers Morgan was waiting on the platform at Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, waiting for the results, and then they came:
Party ---------- Candidate ---- ---- ------- Votes - Percentage
Labour ---------- Piers Morgan --------------- 20,406 - 48.4%
Conservative --- William Shelton ------------ 16,251 - 38.6%
Liberal ---------- Michael William Tuffrey ---- 5,431 - 12.9%
Piers was surprised to hear the result and that he had defeated the incumbent conservative Member of Parliament, William Shelton, since 1974 and becomes one of the 21 new labour MPs to be elected in 1987, along with Mo Mowlam, David Blunkett, Alistair Darling, Diane Abbott, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone.
In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed by Opposition Leader, Tony Blair, as Shadow Minister for Employment, bring Piers to the attention of national politics. After Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 General Election, Piers was elevated to Secretary for the new department of State for Culture, Media and Sport under Prime Minister, Blair.
He would serve in this position until 2003, when he resigned from the cabinet over Britain's involvement into the Iraq invasion
In October 2003, Conservative MP for Doncaster North, Jeremy Clarkson reportedly emptied a glass of water over Morgan while in the Parliament Bar, and the two would have again run a ground in March 2004, when Clarkson punched Morgan three times after Piers accidentally slipped information about Jeremy having an affair.
Piers became known as a rebellious politician who stuck to his guns and when Tony Blair resigned in 2007, Piers went against the grain and stood against Chancellor Gordon Brown, in the 2007 Labour Leadership election and beat him with support from the Unions and Labour Registered Supporters.
So on 27th June, 2007, Piers Morgan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[1] Instead of going into Journalism, Piers goes onto study Law.
[2] OTL results were Conservative William Shelton 18,916 45.0 where as Labour Mrs. E. Anna Tapsall 16,509, a majority of 2,407, with a tern out of 69.5%