Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro appeared on BBC’s Daily Politics on Friday, where he went on a series of rants and lambasted conservative British journalist Andrew Neil for being “on the left.” Neil, the chairman of the right-leaning magazine The Spectator, remained composed during the entire 16-minute interview while attempting to ask Shapiro, who was there to promote his latest book, about American politics. After Neil asked him about the “heartbeat bill” that just passed in Georgia, Shapiro, who is anti-abortion even in cases of rape, flipped out. “Are you an objective journalist or an opinion journalist?” began Shapiro, before talking over Neil. Shapiro insisted that Neil be “honest about your own bias,” as the host calmly explained that his “job is to question those who have strong views and put an alternative to them.”

Stick this in my veins. pic.twitter.com/j2XEekjwe7 — Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) May 10, 2019

When Neil asked if laws banning abortion after six weeks would be taking society back to the Dark Ages, Shapiro lashed out: “You purport to be an objective journalist. The BBC purports to be an objective, down the middle network,” he said. “It obviously is not and it never has been. And you as a journalist are proceeding to call one side of the political spectrum ignorant, barbaric and sending us back to the Dark Ages. Why don’t you just say that you’re on the left?” Neil laughed at the response and simply said, “Mr. Shapiro, if you only knew how ridiculous that statement is you wouldn’t have said it, so let’s move on.” The rest of the interview continued to be just as hostile, while Shapiro insisted that Neil should read his book and that no one had ever heard of Neil. Shapiro cut the interview off by saying, “I’m not inclined to continue in an interview with a person as badly motivated as you as an interviewer so we’re done here, I appreciate your time.” Neil simply added, “Well, thank you for your time and showing that anger isn’t part of political discourse.”

Ben Shapiro storming off in a huff after being humiliated in an interview by Andrew Neil. You’re not on Fox News now.



The full interview is well worth a watch pic.twitter.com/M78kxigxou — Tom Copley (@tomcopley) May 10, 2019

The interview has since gone viral on social media. Prior to that, Shapiro did tweet a response to his antics in the pre-taped conversation and told his Twitter following on Thursday that he “apologizes” for his misinterpretation of Neil’s “antagonism.”

Just pre-taped an interview with BBC’s @afneil. As I’m not familiar with him or his work, I misinterpreted his antagonism as political Leftism (he termed the pro-life position in America “barbaric”) – and that was apparently inaccurate. For that, I apologize. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 9, 2019

Neil has been mostly retweeting comments about the interview on his own Twitter page but also urged people to watch the “full uncut 16 minutes.”

The Politics Live team did a wonderful job editing the essence of my Ben Shapiro interview. But I urge all interested to watch the full uncut 16 minutes, which Rupert Myers has helpfully provided. https://t.co/Nsl7MYvMcf — Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 10, 2019