The Clarkson’s Farm star didn’t hold back.
Jeremy Clarkson has lashed out over Keir Starmer (Image: Getty)
Jeremy Clarkson told Times Radio listeners he “hates” Sir Keir Starmer as he unleashed his fury over the Prime Minister, who is banned from his Cotswolds pub. During the show, when Clarkson was asked if the Prime Minister was still barred from his pub, The Farmer’s Dog, he 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. He’s like, ‘Who cares about them?’ And that is one of the things I really dislike. And then I heard him with Trump trying to argue, ‘Well, we haven’t really taxed them…’ Well, you have.” It’s far from the first time the former Top Gear presenter has taken aim at the Prime Minister about farming.
Keir Starmer was lambasted on Times Radio (Image: Getty)
In 2024, Clarkson branded Starmer a nightmare for farmers after joining a demonstration against Labour’s inheritance tax raid.
At the time, Clarkson claimed Starmer ”doesn’t know what farming is”. “He doesn’t even eat meat. Dreadful people,” the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host continued. “That’s the problem we’re facing in farming. Nobody understands the first thing about it”.
The outspoken presenter, who purchased land now known as Diddly Squat Farm back in 2008, also said Labour’s economic plans had made the situation worse for already struggling farmers.
“Farming is in an absolutely parlous state,” he claimed. “It was before the budget. These poor guys and girls are sitting on their tractors on their own, earning no money; it’s freezing cold, and it’s dangerous.
“Then to be given this budget when they’re that far down is an act of cruelty. I cannot understand how mean-spirited the exchequer must be to have delivered it.”
More recently, Clarkson criticised Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves in his column for The Times following the announcement of the Autumn budget, which raised taxes for working people and lifted the two-child benefit cap.
He fumed: “In the UK, it’s difficult to get on the bottom rung of the ladder and impossible to climb up it, because Reeves doesn’t believe in that sort of thing; not at her core. It revolts her.”