Jeremy Clarkson turns his guns on the Starmer army

With ten days to go until polling day, all signs point to a Conservative wipeout. In such tough times, celebrity support counts for all the more. And while few stars are lining up to snap selfies with Rishi Sunak, at least one is willing to take the fight to Labour. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson, perhaps the nation’s most famous petrolhead, now reborn as the face of the farming community. The former Top Gear presenter has distinguished himself this campaign with several pointed interventions at the expense of the Starmer army.

First there was his response to Labour’s manifesto. After Sunak released a Twitter/X video last week decrying how it had just ’87 words’ to ‘say about British farming’, Clarkson replied to his 8 million followers ‘with him on that’. Then just a few days later, he penned his Saturday Sun column with the headline ‘I’m struggling to work out which way I should go at the election… but I’d rather vote for my dog than Keir Starmer.’