Carol Vorderman and Jeremy Clarkson (Image: PA/ Getty )
Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at Carol Vorderman’s argument that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s unpopularity in the polls is simply down to “bad PR” by the Labour Party. Last month, it was announced that the Labour leader was the least popular Prime Minister on record, according to the polls. The former Countdown presenter discussed this at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool last week.
During a discussion with Carole Cadwalladr, the 63-year-old broadcaster admitted that Starmer would need to be replaced if Labour wanted to win the next General Election. However, she claimed that “right-wing newspapers” played a huge part in his plummeting popularity rather than his divisive new policies.
But it’s fair to say the former Top Gear host wasn’t convinced by her claims, arguing that a lot of his faults are due to his poor performance over the last 12 months he has been in office.
In his latest column, Mr Clarkson shut down Vorderman by pointing out that during the election campaign, she was “extremely keen” that the public voted for Labour. He quipped: “She reckoned that with a Labour government running things, the nation would be filled with smiles and sunshine.”
The Clarkson’s Farm star then made it clear that he disagreed with the maths whiz, describing every Labour leader to have taken office during his lifetime as “useless”. He remarked: “There was a time when [Tony] Blair looked like he might be okay, but then he set off to Iraq to look for a bomb that wasn’t there, and it emerged he was useless too.”
The motoring journalist continued by lumping Starmer in with the same “useless” crowd, before he mentioned how Vorderman had claimed during the Labour Party Conference that the PM’s dwindling popularity was due to “bad PR.”
Carol Vorderman attended the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
He wrote in shock: “WHAT?! You think that his attack and then retreat on pensioners was a public relations cock-up? And that his stupid Chagos deal would have been more palatable if only someone had sold the story more effectively.
“And what about all the people he’s had to fire? And how he’s completely lost control of his dimwit backbenchers.” The Grand Tour star added in his column for The Sun that Caol had conceded that Labour would need a new leader if they were to succeed in the next General Election.
But in the eyes of Mr Clarkson, it “won’t make any difference” when it comes to the public’s opinion. He claimed: “It’s the whole Labour philosophy that’s wrong. And Andy Burnham isn’t going to fix that. So it would just be, ‘Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss’.”
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