Sir Rod Stewart says Labour ‘deserve a crack’ at operating the nation

Sir Rod Stewart has branded Boris Johnson a “lying f****** public schoolboy” as he threw his weight behind Labour forward of the upcoming normal election.

The rock legend and long-time Tory voter confirmed a change of tune, wherein he mentioned Sir Keir Starmer “deserves a crack” at operating the nation.

Politics Live: Sir Rod Stewart says Labour ‘deserve a crack’ at power

“Keir Starmer and Labour deserve a crack at it,” he instructed The Times.

“If there was anyone else we could vote for, maybe, but they should be given a shot. I live here (in the UK) now. I didn’t used to and I see what the Conservatives get up to.”

The Maggie May hitmaker, 79, mentioned that he used to love former prime minister Boris Johnson as a result of he was “a good figurehead”.

“But he turned out to be a lying f****** public schoolboy. He got found out and things haven’t been much better since,” he continued.

“How many prime ministers have we had that haven’t been voted for? What’s all that about?”

A spokesman for Mr Johnson declined to remark.

Sir Rod first aired his disillusionment with the Tories in January final yr when he called in to a live Sky News phone-in and supplied to donate cash for medical scans after listening to tales from individuals about therapy ordeals on the NHS.

He instructed us that whereas he has “been a Tory for a long time” the federal government ought to “stand down now and give the Labour Party a go”.

“In all my years in this country I’ve never seen it so bad… change the bloody government,” he mentioned.

Despite the criticism, Sir Rod mentioned he was nonetheless a fan of Mr Johnson later that yr, telling Sky News in July that he had “wonderful charisma” even after he was discovered to have lied to MPs over the partygate scandal.

Speaking after the previous PM dramatically stop as an MP, Sir Rod mentioned: “You know what you had been getting with Boris, you recognize, so it is common.

“He’s told a few porkies over the years so I’m not surprised he’s in big trouble now.”

Sir Rod just isn’t the one excessive profile determine to change his assist because the Tories languish behind Labour within the polls.

Last month, Iceland supermarket boss Richard Walker, a former Tory donor, mentioned Sir Keir Starmer’s occasion is “the right choice” for his clients as he accused the present authorities of abandoning “basic Conservatives principles”.

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And final summer season, Conservative peer and former minister Lord Zac Goldsmith said he is “very tempted” to support Labour due to the Tories’ report on local weather change.

It got here after one other former minister, Claire Perry O’Neill, who was a part of Theresa May‘s cupboard, quit the party and threw her support behind Sir Keir Starmer’s “competent political leadership”, saying the Tories are too “beholden by ideology and self-obsession” to ship the change the nation wants.

Meanwhile, in October 2022, a multimillionaire former donor to the Conservative Party, Gareth Quarry, instructed Sky News he stopped giving them cash and defected to Labour as a result of he felt they had been “riven with arrogance and complacency”.