SCOTTISH actor and Yes campaigner Brian Cox poked fun at Keir Starmer during an interview with Good Morning Britain.
The Succession star was asked for his verdict on the Prime Minister’s time in office so far and responded by taking aim at a gaffe made by Starmer at Labour conference.
Laughing, the actor replied: “I’m sorry. It’s very hard to say. All I can say is sausages are the boys.”
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Cox was referencing Starmer’s blunder at his party’s conference in which he called for the return of the “sausages” from Gaza instead of the hostages.
The actor added that it was an “unfortunate slip up” and pointed to cuts to the universal Winter Fuel Payment as being a major problem for Labour.
It comes after Labour delegates backed a union motion calling for the cut to be reversed at conference, although this is not binding on the Government and ministers have made it clear the policy won’t be changed.
Cox said the cut to the payment was a “bad motion” but that he felt Starmer had “inherited an impossible position from the Tories”.
Host Susanna Reid then put it to Cox (below) that the argument used by Labour was that the universal payment was previously given to those who did not need help to pay their energy bills.
He replied: “Yeah, but there is the kind of principle of the thing which I think the elderly deserve.
“We’ve all paid our taxes. We have all paid our taxes. And the richer we are, the more tax we pay.”
GMB host Ed Balls then asked Cox what former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee would have made of the move to cut the fuel payment.
Cox said: “I don’t think Clement Attlee would have liked this move at all. For instance, Clement Attlee drove himself everywhere, Clement Attlee was a most extraordinary man.
“He wouldn’t have needed freebies for his clothes or anything like that, you know, that would not have happened.”
Starmer and the wider Labour Party have been widely condemned following a row over free gifts from donors with the Prime Minister himself dubbed the “king of freebies”.
It was revealed that he had declared more than £100,000 of free tickets and gifts during his time as Labour leader.
