Jeremy Clarkson has warned that “not a farmer alive” votes for Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party, following the Government’s betrayal of the countryside. The TV star said farmers are now backing Reform instead.
Clarkson, the former Top Gear host, has run Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire since 2019. A new series of his reality show, Clarkson’s Farm, is set to begin on Amazon Prime Video. He said co-star Kaleb Cooper had told him about growing support for Nigel Farage’s party.
Clarkson told Times Radio: “Well, there’s one party in particular that seems to be doing very well with the young farmers, that I do know, I mean Kaleb tells me all of his friends, all of them are Reform.” In a 10-word swipe, he added: “I don’t think there’s a farmer alive who’s Labour anymore.”
He continued: “Beyond that, I couldn’t really say what anybody else is thinking. I mean, this Government is truly useless, we do know that, and is doing nothing for farming, in fact being actually damaging to farming.”
Presenter Kate McCann asked him about the Greens, but Clarkson dismissed them, saying: “Well, apart from their 'property is theft' agenda, which would make farming quite tricky. Obviously, there’s a lot of tenant farmers out there, but no, I don’t think the Greens are particularly business-friendly, and farming is a business when all is said and done.”
Labour was accused of forcing farming families to sell their businesses after imposing new inheritance taxes, but has since carried out a partial U-turn. Clarkson also commented on litter, saying: “I do not believe in the death penalty, but for people who drop litter, I don’t think there even needs to be a trial. Shoot them in the head.”
