Jeremy Clarkson has delivered another blistering attack on Labour leader Keir Starmer – after being asked if he would ever swap Clarkson’s Farm for Downing Street. The 65-year-old was quizzed on X about whether he might put himself forward for the job of Prime Minister once his hit farming series wraps. His reply was pure Clarkson: “Farms are never finished. Unless the Labourites confiscate them.”
Jeremy, who documents life at his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm on Amazon Prime’s hit Clarkson’s Farm, has been outspoken about Labour policies, accusing Keir Starmer of being “a nightmare for farmers” and ignoring rural concerns. And it’s not the first time the former Top Gear presenter has taken aim at Starmer or his deputy Angela Rayner. He recently mocked the pair for trying to be “relatable,” insisting the country needs leaders who can actually do the job.
Describing her as “the undisputed queen of all this guff,” he argued that Rayner “is constantly at pains to point out that at 16 she was a single mum in a council flat”.
He continued: “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.”
Writing in The Sun, he blasted: “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.”
He also claimed politicians spend money on hare-brained schemes while assuming the public will lap them up. “But I don’t want to relate to the Prime Minister,” he argued.
“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.”
His latest onslaught follows remarks earlier this month when he admitted he “hates” Starmer.
Asked by Times Radio if the Labour leader was still banned from his Cotswolds pub, The Farmer’s Dog, Clarkson replied: “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 flippant 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.”
The Amazon Prime star has also vented his frustration at Britain more generally, branding it an “unsalvageable basket case".
In his column for The Times, he fumed: “It’s easy to convince yourself that Britain is now an unsalvageable basket case, a country that’s slipped into a pair of Fairy Liquid butter trousers and is currently hurtling down the slide of doom into a broken future full of nothing but taxation, crime and disease.
"The only consolation we have is that France might get there first.”
