Jeremy Clarkson's brutal swipe at Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner for trying to be 'relatable'

Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy Clarkson has launched a scathing attack on Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner for attempting to appear "relatable," insisting he wants leaders capable of actually governing the nation.

The 65 year old highlighted how the Prime Ministerconstantly mentions his father's background as a tool-maker to demonstrate his working-class credentials. He quipped, "He sure was."

The TV presenter then turned his fire on Rayner, who finds herself embroiled in controversy over allegations she avoided stamp duty when buying a holiday property.

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Branding her "the undisputed queen of all this guff," he noted she's "constantly at pains to point out that at 16 she was a single mum in a council flat.", reports the Express.

"To reinforce this view, we saw pictures of her last week in an inflatable canoe, with a tattoo and a vape. And were we impressed? Well, I wasn't," he declared.

"I don't want it to be led by someone without a clue about how the real world and business works. What we need is leaders with some personal experience of running a company," Jeremy argued in his column in The Sun.

He emphasised that none of the government ministers possess any business management experience and consequently lack understanding of how things operate. He then slammed the government for squandering money on foolish projects whilst assuming the public would approve simply because they appeared down-to-earth. "But I don't want to relate to the Prime Minister," he said.

"He or she shouldn't be like you or me. They should be a bit weird. A bit of a swot. The greatest Prime Minister in my lifetime was Margaret Thatcher and no one related to her," he concluded.

Jeremy's latest brutal comments emerge just weeks after he confessed he "hates" Keir Starmer because he is "so flippant about farmers" He made the remark when Times Radio presenter Peter Caldwell questioned whether the Prime Minister remained barred from his pub The Farmer's Dog.

The celebrity farmer responded: "Oh God, yes. I hate very few people in life but I do hate that man. He's awful. He's definitely banned. He's just so dismissive about farmers. Whenever you ask him, it's just like 'Well, who cares about them?' And that's one of the things I really dislike."

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