Ewan McGregor has pulled out of a Good Morning Britain interview in protest of the presenter Piers Morgan's remarks about last weekend's Women's March.

The Trainspotting actor Tweeted the news this morning:

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Morgan had questioned the point of the Women's March, in which 2.6 million people around the world united to promote women's rights.

Although not billed as an anti-Trump protest, most of the causes that participants were campaigning for are under threat from the new President – including issues surrounding consent, free birth control and gender equality. Already Trump has reinstated a policy that bans US funding towards NGOs offering abortion counselling, information or post-care.

Morgan, who is a friend of Trump's, had written in the Daily Mail that the demonstration was not about love and solidarity, but a reaction to women being aggrieved that "a man won" the election.

"At its core, it was about Trump-hating and resentment that he won and Hillary lost," wrote Morgan. "It's perfectly democratic to march and protest. But it's not so perfectly democratic to march and protest against the result of a free, democratic election just because the man won."

He also compared the sexual conduct of the President, who has been accused of sexual inappropriateness against 24 different women (allegations he has denied), to the affair of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

Trump's sexist attitudes towards women reached a crescendo when a video was revealed in which he was heard saying he could "do anything" to women, including kiss them without consent and "grab them by the pussy".

"There's also blatant hypocrisy at play too," continued Morgan. "If the sexual morals of a president are so important, where were the marches over Bill Clinton's treatment of a young intern Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office?"

McGregor consequently cancelled his interview with the television show on moral grounds: yet another reason to watch T2 Trainspotting when it comes out in cinemas this weekend.

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